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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three very spooky stories
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. One morning in the summer
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Speaker 1: of eighteen seventy six, a doctor named Louis Allard walked
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Speaker 1: down the hallway up a hospital in Pepete, Tahiti. Tahiti
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Speaker 1: is an island east of Australia. Lewis was just about
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Speaker 1: to step into his office when he heard the hospital
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Speaker 1: doors open, and he looked over to see a few
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Speaker 1: policemen walking in carrying this unconscious man on a stretcher.
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Speaker 1: Just from the looks of the way this guy was dressed,
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Speaker 1: doctor Allard could tell he was a sailor. So a
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Speaker 1: lot of doctor Allard's patients were sailors because Pepete was
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Speaker 1: a port town, so if people got sick or injured
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Speaker 1: at sea and then docked in Pepete, they would come
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Speaker 1: to the hospital right there. So doctor Allard walked over
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Speaker 1: to the police and asked them what was going on
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Speaker 1: with the sailor, and the officers explained that this man's
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Speaker 1: friends had found him unresponsive that morning, apparently after a
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Speaker 1: very long night of drinking. Doctor Allard nodded and then
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Speaker 1: motioned for the police to follow him and bring this
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Speaker 1: guy with him, and he led them over to an
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Speaker 1: exam room where he had them lay out the sailor
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Speaker 1: on a table so that doctor Allard could look him over.
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Speaker 1: The sailor appeared to be pretty young, he was in
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Speaker 1: his twenties maybe, and he appeared very healthy and strong.
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Speaker 1: But when the doctor checked for a pulse, there was none,
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Speaker 1: and so after checking a couple more times to make
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Speaker 1: sure it wasn't just a very weak pulse, the doctor
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Speaker 1: ultimately concluded that, you know, this sailor was not just unresponsive.
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Speaker 2: The sailor was dead, and if.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Allard had to guess, he very likely died from
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Speaker 1: alcohol poisoning, given his friend said, you know, the night before,
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Speaker 1: this guy had had a really heavy night of drinking,
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Speaker 1: and here he was so alcohol poisoning. So this hospital
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Speaker 1: had a policy for how to handle the death of
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Speaker 1: foreign sailors in Tahiti. Basically, the doctor who pronounced the
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Speaker 1: sailor dead would then arrange for them to be buried
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Speaker 1: in a public cemetery. And in fact, the hospital kept
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Speaker 1: these cheap wooden coffins in the hospital morgue for this
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Speaker 1: exact purpose. And so doctor Allard followed protocol and asked
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Speaker 1: the police to go inform the sailor's friends of his death,
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Speaker 1: and then the doctor went to the hospital's morgue to
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Speaker 1: arrange for a coffin. A few hours later, doctor Allard
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Speaker 1: was back in his office when he heard a knock
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Speaker 1: at his door. He told whoever it was to come in,
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Speaker 1: But when the door swung open, the doctor was surprised
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Speaker 1: that who we saw there It was the four local
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Speaker 1: gravediggers who he had called earlier to bury that sailor
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Speaker 1: who had just died. Now, generally speaking, Doctor Allard had
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Speaker 1: virtually no interactions with the grave diggers after he hired them.
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Speaker 1: He would tell them to bury the body, and they
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Speaker 1: would do that and go on their separate way, like
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Speaker 1: there was no reason for the grave diggers to come
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Speaker 1: back and check in with the doctor. But as the
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Speaker 1: doctor is looking at these four guys trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out what was going on here, he quickly assessed that,
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Speaker 1: you know, these guys weren't here.
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Speaker 2: Just to chat.
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Speaker 1: They were here because they look spooped. And before doctor
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Speaker 1: Allard could ask any questions about, you know, what was
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Speaker 1: going on here, one of these grave diggers began to speak,
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Speaker 1: and in sort of a rapid and sort of anxious tone,
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Speaker 1: he said, you know, as we were carrying the coffin
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Speaker 1: over to the grave site, it began to shake, like
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Speaker 1: the person inside the coffin was alive. And then we
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Speaker 1: heard all these moaning sounds coming from inside of this
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Speaker 1: nailed shut coffin, and we all got so panicked that
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Speaker 1: we just dropped the coffin and we ran here to
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Speaker 1: tell you now, was pretty surprised by what he was hearing,
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Speaker 1: but he's also thinking that, you know, when he hired
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Speaker 1: these four grave Diggers. They were at a local pub
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Speaker 1: and they were drinking, and so he's thinking to himself,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe something strange happened, you know, with this coffin,
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Speaker 1: or much more likely, these four guys are drunk, and
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Speaker 1: that what they've sort of said here is just some
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Speaker 1: figment of their imagination that they're not professional. They're just
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Speaker 1: drunk guys who are coming here screwing up my day.
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Speaker 1: And so, sort of annoyed, doctor Allard's like, hey, I'm
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Speaker 1: telling you that guy is dead. Okay, this isn't a
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Speaker 1: ghost scenario, but if you're so worried about it, why
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Speaker 1: don't you go get a police officer, have them come
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Speaker 1: over and inspect the coffin, you know, make sure the
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Speaker 1: person is really dead in there, and then once they
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Speaker 1: confirm that, please do your job and bury this guy.
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Speaker 1: And so the grave Diggers they kind of, you know,
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Speaker 1: look down sort of awkwardly, and they're like, okay, you know,
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Speaker 1: we'll go do that. Then they turned and they left,
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Speaker 1: and then doctor Allard got back to work. And then
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Speaker 1: a few hours later, doctor Allard heard another knock on
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Speaker 1: his door, and this time when the door opened, it
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Speaker 1: was a police officer and it was actually the officer
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Speaker 1: that the four grave diggers had gone and found at
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Speaker 1: doctor Allard's suggestion, and he had gone over checked the coffin,
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Speaker 1: and you know, the coffin wasn't moving, it wasn't making
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Speaker 1: any weird sounds, it was sealed shut. There was nothing
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Speaker 1: going on, and so the officer eventually instructed the grave diggers,
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Speaker 1: you know, to go ahead and bury it.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing going on here.
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Speaker 1: And so the grave diggers had at that point buried
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Speaker 1: the coffin and that had been that, and so the
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Speaker 1: officer was here just to tell doctor Allard.
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Speaker 2: That, hey, it's all good. You know, he's buried. We
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Speaker 2: can move on.
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Speaker 1: About a week later, doctor Allard had basically forgotten about
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Speaker 1: this whole snaffoo around the coffin and whatever.
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Speaker 2: Was going on with it.
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Speaker 1: He was sort of on to the next thing, and
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Speaker 1: he was out like he normally was at night, to
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Speaker 1: go for a walk. And the area that he liked
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Speaker 1: to walk in the most was actually the cemetery, not
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Speaker 1: because he had some sort of morbid obsession, but because
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Speaker 1: you know, it was often you know, vacant, there was
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Speaker 1: nobody there, and so it was a peaceful place to
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Speaker 1: go walking. And so you know, he's strolling through the
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Speaker 1: cemetery like usual, and he's not seeing anybody like usual.
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Speaker 1: But as it began to get dark, he was walking
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Speaker 1: down this one row of headstones and he looked up
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Speaker 1: ahead and he could have sworn he saw somebody standing
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Speaker 1: behind a tree with their body sort of half out
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Speaker 1: of the tree, half behind the tree, sort of half obscured.
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Speaker 2: And he stopped and he's.
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Speaker 1: Looking, and the whole thing just sort of felt off,
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Speaker 1: like what is this person doing? Is that a person?
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Speaker 1: Like what's going on here? And so he's staring and
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Speaker 1: as he's looking, sure enough, this dark silhouette steps.
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Speaker 2: Out from behind this tree. And the way they.
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Speaker 1: Stepped out, it was like they stepped out turned and
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Speaker 1: faced doctor Allard and just stood there, clearly looking right
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Speaker 1: at doctor Allard. But they're pretty far away from doctor Alert,
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Speaker 1: like there's a good distance between them. But immediately doctor
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Speaker 1: Allard felt threatened by this person or whatever it was.
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Speaker 1: He didn't even know if it was a person. He
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Speaker 1: couldn't tell if it was his mind playing tricks on
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Speaker 1: him or not. He's just staring at this thing that
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Speaker 1: looked like it was looking at him, and so doctor
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Speaker 1: Allard instinctively, who's now feeling a little bit frightened, turned
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Speaker 1: and just started walking away, like he was done walking
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Speaker 1: in the cemetery.
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Speaker 2: For the night.
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Speaker 1: And so he turns and he starts walking. But then
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Speaker 1: it's like the hairs in the back of his neck
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Speaker 1: stood up. He just felt like this person, whoever it is,
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Speaker 1: they're still watching me. And so he stopped after just
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Speaker 1: a couple of steps, and he turned back around. And
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Speaker 1: now this figure is clearly marching directly towards doctor Allard.
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Speaker 1: They're almost running, They're walking real fast right towards doctor Allard.
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Speaker 1: And so now doctor Allard's terrified. He knows there's something
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Speaker 1: happening here. Why would this person be doing this, Like is.
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Speaker 2: It a person? Like what's happening here?
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Speaker 1: And so doctor Allard he turns and starts to run,
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Speaker 1: and as he's running, he hears this horrible, high pitched
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Speaker 1: scream echo across the entire cemetery.
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Speaker 2: And then he looks back one last time and.
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Speaker 1: He sees the face of this figure, this person charging
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Speaker 1: towards him, and it's the same guy who died a
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Speaker 1: week ago, the same sailor that he buried, the one
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Speaker 1: who presumably was moving around in the coffin the grape
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Speaker 1: diggers were so scared of it was him, and he
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Speaker 1: jumped on doctor Allard and began throttling him. And doctor
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Speaker 1: Allard's on the ground staring at this ghastly face. The
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Speaker 1: scream is coming out of him. He had no idea
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Speaker 1: what was going on, and then doctor Allard just blacked out.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, doctor Allard came too, and he
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Speaker 1: sat up suddenly, and he's looking around and there's nobody there.
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Speaker 1: It's just a dark, vacant cemetery, no sign of the
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Speaker 1: dead sailor's ghost or whatever, or whoever it was. They're gone.
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Speaker 1: And doctor Allard's just sitting there. His heart's racing still,
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Speaker 1: and he's he's telling himself, like did that even just happen?
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Speaker 2: Like it felt so real.
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Speaker 1: His neck was sore from you know, what he felt
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Speaker 1: was this guy, this thing attacking him. But at the
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Speaker 1: same time, he was so sure that the face that
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Speaker 1: he had seen on this person was the dead sailor's face.
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Speaker 2: But how could that be. He's dead, he's buried, how
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Speaker 2: could that be?
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Speaker 1: And so ultimately doctor Allard he got up and he
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Speaker 1: hustled back to his house, but over the coming weeks,
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Speaker 1: doctor Allard sort of spiraled into madness because it was like,
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Speaker 1: every day, all the time, he would see out of
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Speaker 1: the corner of his eye for a second, like a
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Speaker 1: glimpse of this dead sailor's ghost. And it was always
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Speaker 1: that face, that ghastly face, that shrieking face, looking right
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Speaker 1: at him, and he'd turn and you know, the face
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Speaker 1: would disappear.
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Speaker 2: But doctor Allard, he just felt.
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Speaker 1: Like he was almost being haunted, that something had happened,
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Speaker 1: you know, like that attack in the cemetery. It had
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Speaker 1: felt so real. He felt like, now now this ghost
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Speaker 1: was literally haunting him. But he couldn't tell anyone. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's a doctor. What's he gonna do tell people that
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Speaker 1: a ghost is haunting him.
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Speaker 2: He didn't know what to do.
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Speaker 1: And so what he ended up doing after several weeks
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Speaker 1: is he just began staying home and laying in bed,
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Speaker 1: basically feigning illness to avoid leaving the house. And he
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Speaker 1: would just lay there with his eyes closed basically all
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Speaker 1: day because as soon as he opened his eyes, he
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Speaker 1: would see this dead sailor's face. He really was losing
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Speaker 1: his mind. And then eventually, when doctor Allard knew he
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Speaker 1: had to stop basically staying in bed all day and
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Speaker 1: go back to the hospital and sort of function in
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Speaker 1: society again, go back to work, you know. Otherwise people
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Speaker 1: were going to start asking questions here, like what's going.
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Speaker 2: On with you? And he didn't have an answer. You know.
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Speaker 1: When that time came and he knew it was sort
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Speaker 1: of like, okay, go back to normal or tell people
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Speaker 1: about this. Well, what doctor Allard ultimately did is he
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Speaker 1: decided to walk up to the roof of his house
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Speaker 1: and throw himself off. He literally couldn't live with what
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Speaker 1: he believed was this ghost haunting him.
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Speaker 2: Twenty four to seven.
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Speaker 1: When the doctor's close friends found out that the doctor
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Speaker 1: had taken his own life, they immediately went to the
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Speaker 1: police and said, hey, wait a minute, like, we think
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Speaker 1: this has something to do with what he was dealing
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Speaker 1: with over.
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Speaker 2: The past several weeks.
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Speaker 1: So the doctor, despite not wanting to tell anybody about,
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Speaker 1: you know, his haunting, he did sort of begin to
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Speaker 1: tell a couple of.
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Speaker 2: His close friends.
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Speaker 1: Now, he was sort of subtle about it, but he
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Speaker 1: began telling people that He's like, yeah, I just I
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Speaker 1: keep seeing that.
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Speaker 2: Dead sailor's face everywhere I go.
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Speaker 1: I just keep seeing him Now, he didn't highlight the
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Speaker 1: fact that he was basically losing his mind over it
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Speaker 1: and thought it was literally a ghost. But a couple
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Speaker 1: of his close friends were aware that it almost seemed like,
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Speaker 1: you know, doctor Allard was effectively having a mental breakdown
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Speaker 1: over this dead sailor, and they did sort of connect
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Speaker 1: that doctor Allard sort of felt haunted by this dead sailor,
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Speaker 1: and so said close friends ultimately went to the police
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Speaker 1: and said, hey, I know this is a stretch, but
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Speaker 1: the doctor kind of thought he was being haunted by
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Speaker 1: this dead sailor before he died. We think that has
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Speaker 1: to do with why he took his own life. And
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Speaker 1: sort of amazingly, the police, the way they responded to
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Speaker 1: this was Okay, we're going to look into this. We're
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Speaker 1: going to investigate the haunting, so to speak. And what
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Speaker 1: they did is they exhumed the coffin of that dead sailor.
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Speaker 1: They didn't know what else to do, they just decided
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Speaker 1: they would do that, and so they raised the coffin
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Speaker 1: out of the ground and they open it up and
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Speaker 1: they cannot believe what they see. So it would turn
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Speaker 1: out those four grave diggers had been totally justified in
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Speaker 1: being scared about what they thought they heard and felt
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Speaker 1: in that coffin when they were going to bury it,
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Speaker 1: because the sailor was not dead.
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Speaker 2: He was just so drunk that it.
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Speaker 1: Felt like he was dead. They couldn't feel his pulse.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Allard had been wrong. The sailor was not dead.
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Speaker 1: He was totally alive. And so as he was being
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Speaker 1: carried over to the grave site to be buried, he
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Speaker 1: really was moving around inside the coffin and moaning because
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Speaker 1: he was horribly hungover, but totally alive, and you know,
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Speaker 1: grappling with the fact that he's now you know, confined
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Speaker 1: inside of this coffin. He likely had no idea what
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Speaker 1: was going on, so you can imagine the types of
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Speaker 1: sounds and things he might be doing. And so the
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Speaker 1: grave diggers they were right to be scared. They did
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Speaker 1: get a police officer. The police officer came over and
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, when he inspected the coffin, you know,
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Speaker 1: he saw it was sealed. There was no movement inside
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Speaker 1: the coffin. It was totally quiet, so, you know, the
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Speaker 1: sailor inside he just wasn't moving or making any sound,
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Speaker 1: and so the police officer greenlit burying him. So the
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Speaker 1: living sailor inside the coffin is buried underground by these
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Speaker 1: grave diggers and they go their separate ways afterwards. But
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Speaker 1: then that sailor wakes up again, you know, he begins
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Speaker 1: thrashing around after being buried in the ground, and he
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Speaker 1: actually managed to break out of the coffin and climb
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Speaker 1: out of the ground. He saved himself. He literally, you know,
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Speaker 1: survived being buried alive. But he was furious at the
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Speaker 1: doctor who so cavalierly just decided he was dead and
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Speaker 1: now I go bury him. And so he decided he
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Speaker 1: would play a prank on the doctor to get back
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Speaker 1: at him. So what he did is he filled his
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Speaker 1: coffin up with rocks, and he sealed it back up
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Speaker 1: and he reburied it so nobody would know anything. And
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Speaker 1: then for the next week or so, he just kind
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Speaker 1: of hid out and didn't let anybody know that he was.
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Speaker 2: Actually still alive.
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Speaker 1: And then after about a week he knew the doctor
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Speaker 1: took his walks in that cemetery, and so he hid
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Speaker 1: behind a tree in the cemetery and waited for the
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Speaker 1: doctor to be alone making his walk, and when he
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Speaker 1: saw him, it was the sailor fully alive in the flesh,
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Speaker 1: stepping out from behind the tree looking at the doctor.
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Speaker 2: That was him. It really was the sailor, and he.
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Speaker 1: Really did run forward, shrieking, pretending to be a ghost,
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Speaker 1: and he attacked doctor Allard, basically giving him the impression
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Speaker 1: that his angry ghost was attacking him. And then after
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Speaker 1: doctor Allard passed out on the ground, the sailor ran off.
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Speaker 1: But for doctor Allard, who fully believed that sailor was dead.
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Speaker 1: Can you imagine what he thought when he saw, you know,
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Speaker 1: the sailor attacking him and shrieking in the middle of
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Speaker 1: the cemetery. He fully believed that was the sailor's ghost,
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Speaker 1: and he had this totally real experience getting attacked by
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Speaker 1: the ghost. And so even though he survived the encounter,
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Speaker 1: it drove him mad. He began seeing the dead sailor
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Speaker 1: the ghost everywhere he went, and it eventually drove him
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Speaker 1: to kill himself. And so when the police opened up
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Speaker 1: that coffin, all they saw were all the rocks the
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Speaker 1: sailor had left behind. But following the doctor suicide, that
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Speaker 1: sailor apparently skipped down and was never seen again. It
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Speaker 1: of August thirtieth, eighteen ninety two, a twenty year old
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Speaker 1: man named Benjamin Trudell climbed into his bed inside of
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Speaker 1: the Deer Park Life Saving Station, which was a small
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Speaker 1: government building right off the coast of Lake Superior in Michigan.
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Speaker 1: Benjamin was a member of the Life Saving.
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Speaker 2: Sir, which was a precursor to the US Coast Guard.
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Speaker 1: And he was currently working overnight as a surfman, which
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Speaker 1: was basically like a lifeguard, but specifically for ships that
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Speaker 1: were out on the lake. He was there with a
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Speaker 1: bunch of other surfmen who were all taking shifts, either sleeping,
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Speaker 1: patrolling the beach, or staying awake inside the station in
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Speaker 1: case somebody came looking for help. Benjamin had just finished
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Speaker 1: a four hour beach patrol which had been pretty uneventful,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time, he was still walking around
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Speaker 1: for four hours on loose sand, and so he was
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Speaker 1: pretty tired. And so now that he was back at
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Speaker 1: the station, he had a little bit of time where
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Speaker 1: he could basically take a nap, and so he set
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Speaker 1: his alarm for four hours later, which is when he
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Speaker 1: would need to be awake in the station to take
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Speaker 1: on another shift, And then he told his fellow surfman
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Speaker 1: that he was going to close his eyes for a minute,
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Speaker 1: and then he climbed into bed and fell asleep. A
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Speaker 1: few hours later, though, ben shot up in bed and
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Speaker 1: began frantically looking around the room. He was covered in sweat,
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Speaker 1: his heart was racing, and after a second he realized
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Speaker 1: that okay, like he's okay, he's the he's in this station,
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Speaker 1: he's safe, and what had just happened to him was
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Speaker 1: just a dream he had had, like a terrifying nightmare,
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Speaker 1: but it had felt so real that it really took
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Speaker 1: him a second to, you know, understand that that's all,
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Speaker 1: it had been, just a dream.
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Speaker 2: In this dream, Benjamin was walking along the.
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Speaker 1: Coast of Lake Superior, like he did during his nightly
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Speaker 1: beach patrol, and it was dark out, and there was
17:20
Speaker 1: this awful thunderstorm and the rain was coming down so
17:23
Speaker 1: hard that Benjamin could barely see, and in fact, he
17:26
Speaker 1: almost felt like the impacts of the individual rain drops
17:29
Speaker 1: almost hurt his skin, like they were acids striking his skin.
17:33
Speaker 2: Then suddenly, through this.
17:35
Speaker 1: Wall of rain right in front of him, this man
17:38
Speaker 1: who ben didn't recognize, kind of stumbled into view. And
17:41
Speaker 1: this man was wearing very nice clothing, like he was
17:43
Speaker 1: on his way to a party or something.
17:45
Speaker 2: But you know, they're down at the coast of this.
17:47
Speaker 1: Lake and it's storming out like it didn't make any sense,
17:50
Speaker 1: but Benjamin, he just stared at the sky and didn't
17:52
Speaker 1: say anything, and the guy looked right back at Benjamin,
17:56
Speaker 1: and without saying a word, he just reached out and
17:59
Speaker 1: really aggressively shook Benjamin's hand. And then as Benjamin is
18:03
Speaker 1: watching his hand be shaken around by this guy, this
18:06
Speaker 1: guy with wild eyes turns and he points out to
18:10
Speaker 1: the lake that's right next to them, and even though
18:12
Speaker 1: he didn't say anything, he pointed with this level of urgency,
18:15
Speaker 1: like there's something out there, something bad, and you need
18:19
Speaker 1: to pay attention to whatever it is. And so Benjamin
18:22
Speaker 1: he turned and his hand still being shaken by the sky,
18:25
Speaker 1: and he looks out but it's just a wall of water.
18:27
Speaker 1: He can't even see the lake, and he has no
18:29
Speaker 1: idea what this guy is trying to tell him.
18:32
Speaker 2: And it was at that.
18:33
Speaker 1: Point that, you know, Benjamin sat up and he was
18:35
Speaker 1: awake again. Now, objectively, Benjamin understood that while this dream
18:40
Speaker 1: definitely was creepy, it wasn't really terrifying.
18:43
Speaker 2: You know.
18:43
Speaker 1: It's you know, it was raining and storming, and a
18:46
Speaker 1: random guy came up and shook his hand and pointed
18:48
Speaker 1: at the lake like that's that's not terrifying. But for
18:51
Speaker 1: some reason, for Benjamin, it just felt so real that
18:55
Speaker 1: that was the thing that made it so unsettling. It
18:57
Speaker 1: felt like he really had been out there and really
19:00
Speaker 1: had this interaction. Now, Benjamin was not the type of
19:03
Speaker 1: guy that would, you know, find meaning in dreams. He
19:07
Speaker 1: basically chalked dreams up as just that, just dreams. But
19:10
Speaker 1: there was something different about this dream. He felt, almost intuitively,
19:14
Speaker 1: like what had just happened in his dream was a
19:17
Speaker 1: warning that that man, whoever he was, was telling Benjamin
19:22
Speaker 1: something and it had to do with the lake.
19:24
Speaker 2: But he didn't know what it was.
19:25
Speaker 1: But As Benjamin thought about this, he knew how sort
19:28
Speaker 1: of crazy that sounded, and he figured that maybe he
19:31
Speaker 1: was just kind of caught up in the immediacy of
19:33
Speaker 1: having just had this dream that really the only reason
19:36
Speaker 1: he felt like it had weight is because it just happened,
19:39
Speaker 1: and so maybe if he just went outside and got
19:41
Speaker 1: some fresh air and let some time pass, that he would,
19:43
Speaker 1: you know, let this dream fade into the ether and
19:46
Speaker 1: he'd go back to normal life. And sure enough, when
19:48
Speaker 1: he got outside and got some fresh air, he did
19:51
Speaker 1: feel better, but he did still feel like that dream
19:54
Speaker 1: meant something, and so he just walked down to the
19:56
Speaker 1: coast of Lake Superior where he was in his dream,
19:59
Speaker 1: to the the surfmen who were down there doing their
20:01
Speaker 1: own patrol, and there, you know, there was nothing unusual
20:04
Speaker 1: happening a lake. It was so calm, and Benjamin he
20:08
Speaker 1: went up to one of the surfmen and just kind
20:09
Speaker 1: of told him about the stream, and he was almost
20:12
Speaker 1: joking about it. He's like, yeah, you know, it felt
20:14
Speaker 1: so real that like I almost feel like it was
20:16
Speaker 1: a warning of some.
20:17
Speaker 2: Kind, but yeah, it's just a dream.
20:19
Speaker 1: And the other surfmen who were listening just for like, yeah,
20:21
Speaker 1: that's crazy, crazy dream.
20:23
Speaker 2: Huh, And that was it.
20:24
Speaker 1: Following day, around noon, Benjamin and his fellow surfman were
20:28
Speaker 1: hanging out inside the life saving station when all of
20:31
Speaker 1: a sudden, this guy comes stumbling into the station and
20:35
Speaker 1: he looked awful. He was soaking wet, he was covered
20:38
Speaker 1: in all these cuts and bruises, and he was visibly
20:41
Speaker 1: shaking so much that it almost looked like he was
20:44
Speaker 1: about to collapse right there onto the floor. Benjamin immediately
20:47
Speaker 1: asked the guy, like, Hey, what's going on, what's brought
20:49
Speaker 1: you here?
20:50
Speaker 2: What's happening?
20:50
Speaker 1: And the man, who clearly was struggling to just breathe
20:53
Speaker 1: at this point, sort of composed himself and just said,
20:56
Speaker 1: I was out on the lake last night on a
20:58
Speaker 1: ship that sunk. And as soon as he said that,
21:01
Speaker 1: Benjamin was like in total disbelief, because if a ship
21:05
Speaker 1: sunk on Lake Superior, the life saving Service that Benjamin
21:09
Speaker 1: was a part of was supposed to know because they
21:12
Speaker 1: patrolled the lake and tracked the vessels out on the water,
21:16
Speaker 1: So it seemed sort of impossible that a ship could
21:19
Speaker 1: sink and his crew, the Surfman would somehow.
21:22
Speaker 2: Not even know about it.
21:23
Speaker 1: And then at the same time, Benjamin is thinking this.
21:26
Speaker 1: He couldn't help but go back to that dream he
21:29
Speaker 1: had had. It had happened last night, and it just
21:32
Speaker 1: seemed like this guy was warning Benjamin about something out
21:36
Speaker 1: on the lake. It just seemed way too coincidental that
21:40
Speaker 1: this guy's here the next day talking about a shipwreck
21:43
Speaker 1: out on the lake around the same timeframe. The survivor
21:46
Speaker 1: of the shipwreck explained that the ship had been really
21:50
Speaker 1: far out on the lake, probably too far away from
21:52
Speaker 1: shore for them to even see. And he said that
21:54
Speaker 1: he and several other people had made it onto a lifeboat,
21:58
Speaker 1: but the boat had capsized, and he spent hours and
22:01
Speaker 1: hours swimming to shore, and he had just gotten here
22:04
Speaker 1: and that's why he'd come in. And he was soaking
22:05
Speaker 1: wet and so tired because he had just swam all night.
22:08
Speaker 2: And he said he didn't know.
22:09
Speaker 1: About any of the other survivors, or if there were
22:11
Speaker 1: any other survivors. All he knew was that he was here,
22:14
Speaker 1: and he has no idea what else happened. And so
22:16
Speaker 1: Benjamin and the other surfmen immediately gave this man a
22:19
Speaker 1: blanket and some food and some water, and then they
22:21
Speaker 1: quickly sent out a fleet of boats to go search
22:24
Speaker 1: the lake to hopefully find other victims of the shipwreck.
22:28
Speaker 1: That evening and all through the night, Benjamin and his
22:30
Speaker 1: co workers sailed rescue boats back and forth all across
22:34
Speaker 1: Lake Superior looking for survivors, but all they could find
22:38
Speaker 1: were four dead bodies. But the man who had swam
22:41
Speaker 1: to shore and told them about this shipwreck said there
22:44
Speaker 1: had to be more people out there. He said there
22:46
Speaker 1: had been twenty seven people on this ship, including him
22:49
Speaker 1: when it had sunk, which meant a lot of people
22:51
Speaker 1: were still definitely unaccounted for. So while some of the
22:54
Speaker 1: surfmen continued to search out on the water, Benjamin and
22:58
Speaker 1: a small team decided they would actually search the coastline
23:01
Speaker 1: itself and see if anybody washed up on shore. And
23:04
Speaker 1: so early on the morning of September one, so now
23:07
Speaker 1: the surfmen have been out searching for people for over
23:10
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. At this point, Benjamin and his team
23:13
Speaker 1: were walking down the coastline and they looked up ahead
23:16
Speaker 1: and they saw what appeared to be two people laying
23:19
Speaker 1: on the sand, and so of course they ran up
23:21
Speaker 1: to them, and unfortunately they discovered that, you know, it
23:25
Speaker 1: was a man and a woman who were lying face
23:27
Speaker 1: down in the sand, and they were not breathing.
23:29
Speaker 2: They were dead.
23:30
Speaker 1: And so Ben he knelt down next to the man
23:33
Speaker 1: and he began rolling his body over to get a
23:36
Speaker 1: look at him. And when he did that, two things happened.
23:39
Speaker 1: When he rolled him over and actually got a look
23:41
Speaker 1: at this guy's face, he saw immediately that it was
23:44
Speaker 1: the exact same guy from his dream, the guy who
23:48
Speaker 1: had shaken his hand and pointed out at the lake.
23:51
Speaker 1: It was him, definitely. And as he's having this revelation
23:54
Speaker 1: and he's sort of kneeling there in shock, the man's body,
23:57
Speaker 1: he's sort of rolling it over, and as it complete
24:00
Speaker 1: eat the rollover, the man's limp hand falls directly onto
24:05
Speaker 1: Ben's hand like a handshake. Ben would later learn that
24:09
Speaker 1: the ship that sunk out on Lake Superior the night
24:12
Speaker 1: before was called the Western Reserve, and apparently it had
24:16
Speaker 1: sunk during the exact same time that Ben had that nightmare.
24:21
Speaker 1: And the man that Ben saw in his dream, the
24:24
Speaker 1: man that had been pointing out at the lake and
24:26
Speaker 1: shaking his hand in the dream, and then Ben found
24:29
Speaker 1: on the shore dead, who then in his death flopped
24:32
Speaker 1: over and put his hand in his hand all over again.
24:35
Speaker 1: Was a guy named Robert Minch, and he was part
24:38
Speaker 1: owner of the Western Reserve ship. For the rest of
24:40
Speaker 1: Benjamin's life, he believed that Robert's spirit had actually visited
24:44
Speaker 1: him in that nightmare to warn him about the shipwreck
24:48
Speaker 1: that was literally happening right then and there.
24:52
Speaker 2: That he was shaking his hand and pointing.
24:54
Speaker 1: Out at the lake, like, hey, go out there right now,
24:57
Speaker 1: there's something horrible happening.
24:58
Speaker 2: A ship is sinking. People. Ne did your help. But
25:01
Speaker 2: when Benjamin woke.
25:02
Speaker 1: Up, despite really feeling like this meant something, this dream
25:05
Speaker 1: was a warning, he didn't actually go out and search
25:09
Speaker 1: the lake, and so as a result, the ship sank.
25:12
Speaker 1: In fact, of the twenty seven people who were on
25:15
Speaker 1: board that ship that sank, twenty six.
25:17
Speaker 2: Died, including Robert the owner.
25:20
Speaker 1: The only survivor was that man who swammed ashore and
25:24
Speaker 1: told them after the shipwreck had already happened. On the
25:39
Speaker 1: afternoon of September twentieth, nineteen eighty nine, a seventy year
25:43
Speaker 1: old man named Jim Moore and his wife Clara walked
25:46
Speaker 1: along the beach on a tiny island.
25:48
Speaker 2: Off the coast of South Carolina.
25:49
Speaker 1: It was called Polly's Island and It was less than
25:51
Speaker 1: four miles long and only wide enough to fit one
25:54
Speaker 1: main road with beachfront houses on either side. Jim and
25:57
Speaker 1: Clara lived in one of those beachfront houses, and every
26:01
Speaker 1: afternoon they would go out and walk the beach together.
26:04
Speaker 1: That particular day, as they walked, Jim could see some
26:06
Speaker 1: clouds gathering off in the distance, right above the ocean,
26:09
Speaker 1: and he'd actually seen a weather report recently about this
26:11
Speaker 1: big storm called Hurricane Hugo that was supposed to be
26:15
Speaker 1: heading their way in the next couple of days. Living
26:17
Speaker 1: on an island, Jim and Clara were pretty used to
26:19
Speaker 1: getting warnings like that.
26:21
Speaker 2: I mean, storms were sort of a.
26:22
Speaker 1: Big deal on an island because you're pretty isolated, and
26:24
Speaker 1: they were just planning to evacuate if the weather, you know,
26:27
Speaker 1: got pretty bad.
26:28
Speaker 2: But for now, it did seem like the weather wasn't
26:30
Speaker 2: too bad, so they were sticking it out.
26:32
Speaker 1: However, it did sort of seem like basically everybody else
26:36
Speaker 1: on Polly's Island had taken the storm a little bit
26:38
Speaker 1: more seriously, and most of them had already evacuated. And
26:42
Speaker 1: in fact, as Jim and Clara are walking, I mean, normally,
26:44
Speaker 1: they would see lots of people out doing what they
26:46
Speaker 1: were doing, walking the beach, but today there was just
26:50
Speaker 1: one person really far down the beach, just this one
26:52
Speaker 1: guy walking towards them.
26:53
Speaker 2: But that was it. The rest of the beach was
26:55
Speaker 2: basically deserted.
26:56
Speaker 1: But Jim and Clara were you know, veterans of Polly's
26:59
Speaker 1: Island and certainly veterans of other storms that they had
27:02
Speaker 1: weathered in the past, and so they weren't worried yet
27:05
Speaker 1: and they just continued to, you know, walk down the
27:07
Speaker 1: beach and chat and just kind of stare out at
27:10
Speaker 1: these growing clouds and just have a normal day.
27:12
Speaker 2: But as they're walking, Jim was sort of.
27:15
Speaker 1: Keeping an eye on this guy, this one other guy
27:17
Speaker 1: on the beach that was walking towards them. Now he
27:20
Speaker 1: wasn't literally walking towards them, he was just sort of
27:22
Speaker 1: walking in the other direction. And so inevitably, both Jim
27:26
Speaker 1: and Clara and the guy were going to pass each other.
27:29
Speaker 1: And as Jim got closer to this guy, he realized
27:32
Speaker 1: he actually didn't recognize him. And realistically, Polly's Island was
27:36
Speaker 1: so small that Jim and Clara basically knew everybody, or
27:40
Speaker 1: at least could recognize everybody. But this guy who was
27:43
Speaker 1: wearing this long gray coat and this wide brimmed hat
27:46
Speaker 1: and he kind of had his head down. Jim didn't
27:49
Speaker 1: recognize and he told Clara like, hey, who is this guy?
27:52
Speaker 1: As they're walking closer and closer, and she's like, I
27:54
Speaker 1: don't know, I've never seen him before. But you know,
27:56
Speaker 1: there was no cause for alarm here. You know, it's
27:58
Speaker 1: broad daylight, and who cares if they're there's a stranger
28:01
Speaker 1: on the island. I mean, of course, people that live
28:03
Speaker 1: here have guests all the time, Like this is probably
28:05
Speaker 1: just somebody visiting somebody who lives here.
28:08
Speaker 2: And so they're walking getting closer and closer.
28:10
Speaker 1: And then finally, when Jim and Clara were about, you know,
28:13
Speaker 1: ten feet away from the sky, the guy in the
28:15
Speaker 1: big gray coat, Jim, you know, to be polite, just said, hey,
28:18
Speaker 1: how you doing. You know, because they're the only people
28:20
Speaker 1: on the beach, you can't just ignore each other. But
28:21
Speaker 1: the guy in the gray coat, he just kept that
28:24
Speaker 1: big hat sort of angled down and just briskly walked
28:27
Speaker 1: right past Jim and Clara and didn't even acknowledge them,
28:30
Speaker 1: which is like, you know, there's nobody else here, what
28:33
Speaker 1: are you doing? It's sort of rude, and so Jim
28:34
Speaker 1: and Clara they look at each other like that's weird.
28:37
Speaker 1: They keep on walking, and then for whatever reason, Jim
28:41
Speaker 1: just turns around and looks towards the sky the guy
28:45
Speaker 1: who had just passed them, the guy in the gray coat.
28:47
Speaker 2: And when he looked, he just stopped because the guy
28:51
Speaker 2: was gone. And there's nowhere to go.
28:54
Speaker 1: There is no you know, shrubs or trees or anything.
28:58
Speaker 1: This is a wide open, flat beach and this guy
29:01
Speaker 1: has just passed Jim and Clara like seconds ago. He
29:06
Speaker 1: can't be anywhere else. He has to be on the beach.
29:08
Speaker 1: There's nowhere to hide. And so Jimmy grabs Clara and
29:11
Speaker 1: he's like, look, he's gone. And she turns around and
29:13
Speaker 1: she's like, what's going on. That's not possible. And they're
29:16
Speaker 1: looking like did he go in the ocean? But they're
29:18
Speaker 1: looking out in the water and there's no sign of him.
29:20
Speaker 1: The only place, you know, maybe he could have gone
29:24
Speaker 1: is if as soon as he passed by Jim and
29:26
Speaker 1: Clara he hard turned and ran inland and hid, you know,
29:30
Speaker 1: behind one of the houses. But that's pretty far away.
29:33
Speaker 1: It just didn't seem possible that in that short of
29:35
Speaker 1: an amount of time he could get up there and hide,
29:38
Speaker 1: and also, why would you do that? That's such bizarre behavior.
29:42
Speaker 1: And so Jim and Clara they're just standing there, like
29:44
Speaker 1: trying to come up with some reasonable theory to explain
29:47
Speaker 1: where this guy went, but they just couldn't do it. It
29:51
Speaker 1: was like this guy just disappeared. And so eventually Jim
29:55
Speaker 1: and Clara just had to turn back around and finish
29:58
Speaker 1: their walk and make their way home.
30:00
Speaker 2: And the whole time all.
30:01
Speaker 1: They could talk about was this disappearing man in the
30:04
Speaker 1: gray coat, because it defied any rational explanation where did
30:09
Speaker 1: he go. When the couple finally got back to their house,
30:12
Speaker 1: by this point, the clouds that had been gathering outside
30:15
Speaker 1: were now very dark, and it really did seem like
30:18
Speaker 1: a serious storm was on the horizon. And then when
30:20
Speaker 1: they turned on the TV, they put on the Weather channel,
30:23
Speaker 1: and there was this bulletin that the South Carolina state
30:26
Speaker 1: government had actually issued an evacuation order to all inhabitants
30:31
Speaker 1: of Polly's Island because apparently Hurricane Hugo was getting bigger
30:35
Speaker 1: and faster and more destructive, and it appeared like Polly's
30:39
Speaker 1: Island was clearly going to be in the path of
30:41
Speaker 1: this hurricane. And so at this point Jim and Clara
30:44
Speaker 1: forgot about the Gray Man and realized, like, hey, we
30:47
Speaker 1: got to pack our stuff up and go. You know,
30:48
Speaker 1: we thought we had maybe a day or two before
30:50
Speaker 1: we'd have to evacuate, but no more.
30:52
Speaker 2: We got to go right now.
30:53
Speaker 1: And fortunately for them, they actually had an adult daughter
30:56
Speaker 1: who lived right on mainland South Carolina, and so they
30:59
Speaker 1: could stay with her on short notice, no problem, and
31:01
Speaker 1: so they quickly packed up.
31:02
Speaker 2: They hopped in their car, and.
31:04
Speaker 1: They drove on the one main road until they hit
31:06
Speaker 1: the bridge that went over the ocean. They made their
31:09
Speaker 1: way across the bridge onto mainland South Carolina and over
31:12
Speaker 1: to their daughter's house, and once they got there, their
31:15
Speaker 1: daughter was obviously very happy to see them, happy they
31:17
Speaker 1: were safe, and they would just spend the whole day
31:19
Speaker 1: basically just sitting there with the Weather Channel on watching
31:23
Speaker 1: reports about Hurricane Hugo, and over the course of the
31:25
Speaker 1: day the news got more and more dire. Hurricane Hugo
31:29
Speaker 1: was poised to be this enormous, destructive storm that was
31:32
Speaker 1: not slowing down at all, and unfortunately, Polly's Island was
31:36
Speaker 1: really looking like one of the main areas that was
31:39
Speaker 1: going to be affected by the storm. In fact, the
31:41
Speaker 1: meteorologist was saying, like, it is not safe to be
31:44
Speaker 1: on the island at this point. I mean, there's a
31:46
Speaker 1: chance that all the structures on the island could be
31:49
Speaker 1: leveled by the end of the storm. So Jim and Clara,
31:52
Speaker 1: they're obviously happy they are safe, you know, on mainland
31:54
Speaker 1: South Carolina with their daughter, but they live on that island,
31:58
Speaker 1: their house, everything they own on that island, and so
32:01
Speaker 1: the idea that they were just helpless and their house
32:04
Speaker 1: is going to be destroyed was sort of just terrible, like,
32:07
Speaker 1: what can you even do? You're helpless, And so as
32:09
Speaker 1: they began to sort of spiral into all their anxieties
32:12
Speaker 1: around what's going to happen, you know, eventually one of
32:15
Speaker 1: them said, hey, let's just accept that we're in this
32:17
Speaker 1: position and let's just change the subject. You know, we're
32:19
Speaker 1: safe here, don't worry about what the storm's going to do.
32:22
Speaker 1: Let's just change the subject. And the first subject that
32:25
Speaker 1: was raised was Jim and Clara's encounter with that strange
32:29
Speaker 1: disappearing man in the gray cloak.
32:31
Speaker 2: And so Jim and.
32:32
Speaker 1: Clara they told the story to their daughter about this
32:34
Speaker 1: weird guy they saw on how he just kind of vanished,
32:36
Speaker 1: And their daughter was like really interested listening to the story,
32:40
Speaker 1: And when they were done telling it, she looked at
32:42
Speaker 1: her parents and was.
32:43
Speaker 2: Like, I think you might have seen the Gray Man. Now.
32:46
Speaker 1: Jim and Clara had lived on Polly's Island long enough
32:48
Speaker 1: to know about the legend of the Gray Man. As
32:51
Speaker 1: the story goes, one hundred and fifty years earlier, there
32:54
Speaker 1: was this sailor who was making his way to Polly's
32:57
Speaker 1: Island to see his fiance who was there, And when
32:59
Speaker 1: he got to the island, he unfortunately basically fell into
33:03
Speaker 1: quicksand and died, And so the fiance is totally heartbroken.
33:07
Speaker 1: She's basically losing her mind over the sudden loss of
33:10
Speaker 1: her love. But a couple of days after her fiance
33:13
Speaker 1: the sailor had died, she saw him walking on the
33:16
Speaker 1: beach on Polly's Island, and he was wearing this long
33:20
Speaker 1: gray coat and this big, wide brimmed hat, and he
33:24
Speaker 1: was walking towards her, and she was so overjoyed. She
33:27
Speaker 1: knows it doesn't make any sense, but she runs to
33:29
Speaker 1: her beloved sailor, and right as she reaches him, he disappears. Now,
33:34
Speaker 1: Jim and Clara they couldn't help but see the overlap here.
33:37
Speaker 1: I mean, they saw, you know, a guy wearing a
33:39
Speaker 1: long gray coat with a big, wide brimmed hat, who
33:43
Speaker 1: you know, was walking on the beach, who then disappeared.
33:45
Speaker 1: It did sort of seem like the legend of the
33:47
Speaker 1: Gray Man, But neither Jim nor Clara really felt like
33:50
Speaker 1: that actually was the explanation here.
33:52
Speaker 2: But at the same time, Jim.
33:54
Speaker 1: Did feel like, man, that is a weird coincidence. Over
33:58
Speaker 1: the next couple of days, Hurricane and Hugo made landfall
34:01
Speaker 1: and it was absolutely vicious. And then finally when it
34:04
Speaker 1: passed and it was safe to go back to Paully's Island,
34:07
Speaker 1: Jim and Clara loaded up their car.
34:09
Speaker 2: They said by to their daughter, and they made the
34:11
Speaker 2: drive out there.
34:12
Speaker 1: And as they were crossing the bridge to get out
34:14
Speaker 1: to Paully's Island, along with all the other inhabitants that
34:16
Speaker 1: were going back, they immediately could tell that Paully's Island
34:20
Speaker 1: really had been leveled. I mean, the roads themselves were
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Speaker 1: badly damaged. There were street signs and trees everywhere, and
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Speaker 1: as they're getting closer they can see that basically, their
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Speaker 1: whole community has been leveled. All the buildings are destroyed.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's like a war zone. Now.
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Speaker 1: Jim and Clara had sort of braced themselves for this
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Speaker 1: because they had heard on the news that sure enough,
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Speaker 1: this hurricane had been as bad as expected and Paully's
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Speaker 1: Island had taken a direct hit. And so they drove
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Speaker 1: across the island until they reached their property, and when
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Speaker 1: they got to their property, they could not believe.
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Speaker 2: What they saw.
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Speaker 1: So there's actually one more part to the legend of
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Speaker 1: the gray Man Ghost. That is, when the woman saw
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Speaker 1: who she believed was her dead fiance walking up the
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Speaker 1: beach with its gray coat and his big brimmed hat,
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Speaker 1: and she runs up and he disappears, and it's so tragic.
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Speaker 1: That's not the end of the story, because the woman
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Speaker 1: was so upset by seeing what she thought was her
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Speaker 1: fiance again he's back from the dead, Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 1: and then he vanishes. It's like she had to experience
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Speaker 1: his death a second time, and it made her go crazy.
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Speaker 1: It was like so much grief, it was so overwhelming
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Speaker 1: that she couldn't live with it. And in fact, quickly
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Speaker 1: after seeing you know his ghost disappear. She was sent
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Speaker 1: off the island to a hospital. She was basically institutionalized,
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Speaker 1: and while she was off the island.
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Speaker 2: Immediately after she.
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Speaker 1: Left the island, this huge storm rolled through and leveled
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Speaker 1: Polly's Island and only one building survived.
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Speaker 2: It was her house.
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Speaker 1: Inexplicably, her house was untouched, completely untouched. Everybody else's ruined.
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Speaker 1: Keep that in mind because when Jim and Clara returned
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Speaker 1: to Paully's Island following Hurricane Hugo, whose house was the
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Speaker 1: only house left standing, theirs utterly untouched, their neighbors' houses,
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Speaker 1: all the local businesses, everything gone. Their house untouched. And
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Speaker 1: just so you know, the legend of the Gray Man,
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Speaker 1: people believe if you see the Gray Man, he's warning
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Speaker 1: you to leave the island in advance of a storm,
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Speaker 1: like he apparently did for his fiancee. He warned her
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Speaker 1: get off the island, and if you heed his warning,
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Speaker 1: the legend goes your house will be spared, and people
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Speaker 1: believe that's exactly what happened to Jim and Clara. Thank
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