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Top 3 stories that sound fake but are 100% real Part 2 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today we're
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  Speaker 1: going to look at three stories that demonstrate that. But
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  Speaker 1: before we get into today's stories, if you're a fan
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  Speaker 1: From two thousand to twenty thirteen, Cornelius Mike Anderson miraculously
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  Speaker 1: turned his life around. Growing up in a suburb of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis, Missouri, Mike was a troubled young man that
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  Speaker 1: seemed destined for jail time. But something changed for him
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  Speaker 1: in the year two thousand, when he was twenty three
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  Speaker 1: years old. Suddenly he wanted to make the most out
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  Speaker 1: of his life, so he distanced himself from his old
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  Speaker 1: friends and he moved to a different suburb outside of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Louis called Webster Groves. There, he started a successful
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  Speaker 1: construction company. He got married, divorced, married again. He had
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  Speaker 1: three kids and became the father to a stepchild. He
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  Speaker 1: was very active in his community, volunteering countless hours at
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  Speaker 1: his church as well as becoming a youth football coach.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone that met Mike after the year two thousand only
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  Speaker 1: had wonderful things to say about him. But Mike had
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  Speaker 1: a big secret about his past that he was just
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  Speaker 1: hoping never saw the light of day. Back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: ninety nine, when Mike was twenty three years old, he
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  Speaker 1: robbed a burger king outside of Saint Louis at gunpoint.
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  Speaker 1: He was arrested in the year two thousand, convicted of
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  Speaker 1: armed robbery and sentenced to thirteen years in prison. Shortly
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  Speaker 1: after his conviction, he was out on bail pending the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of his appeal. But when his appeal was denied
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  Speaker 1: in May of two thousand and two, Mike was expecting
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  Speaker 1: to go back to jail, and so he asked his lawyer,
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  Speaker 1: you know what are the next steps?
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  Speaker 2: Because I'm out unveil, do I go to the jail?
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  Speaker 2: Did did they come to get me?
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  Speaker 1: And his lawyer said, oh no, they'll issue a warrant
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  Speaker 1: for your arrest. They will come to your house and
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  Speaker 1: they will take you to jail. So Mike got his
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  Speaker 1: affairs in order and he waited to go to jail,
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  Speaker 1: but no one ever showed up, and so days turned
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  Speaker 1: into weeks, turned into years, and no one ever took
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  Speaker 1: Mike to jail because it would turn out the state
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  Speaker 1: had made a clerical error and they believed Mike was
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  Speaker 1: already behind bars when he was actually just at his home.
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  Speaker 1: And in July of twenty thirteen, at the end of
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  Speaker 1: his original thirteen year sentence, they went to go release
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  Speaker 1: him from prison.
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  Speaker 2: That's when they realized he had never been incarcerated.
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  Speaker 1: So eight US marshals immediately went to his house and
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  Speaker 1: they arrested him and they brought him to jail, and
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  Speaker 1: there was this huge public outcry that it was totally
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  Speaker 1: unjust that you're arresting him now, because it's the state's
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  Speaker 1: fault that they did not bring him to jail. It's
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  Speaker 1: not Mike's fault, and Mike used that opportunity to become
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  Speaker 1: a totally changed man. And so after a number of
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  Speaker 1: appeals and this very public petition of people trying to
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  Speaker 1: get Mike out of jail, a judge finally took a
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  Speaker 1: closer look at Mike's case, and it would take this
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  Speaker 1: judge only ten minutes to come to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: Mike was in fact a changed man and should.
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  Speaker 2: Not have to serve the rest of his sentence.
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  Speaker 1: And so, although Mike was held for nine months after
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  Speaker 1: being re arrested, he was released and today he is
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  Speaker 1: a freeman. The Tromp family were, by all accounts, a normal,
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  Speaker 1: hard working household. Fifty one year old Mark Tromp and
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  Speaker 1: his wife, fifty three year old Kobe Tromp, had established
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  Speaker 1: a successful red current farm and earth moving business at
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  Speaker 1: their property in STILVN, which is just outside of Melbourne.
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  Speaker 1: Their three adult children, which were twenty nine year old Rihanna,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five year old Mitchell, and twenty two year old Ella,
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  Speaker 1: all lived and worked with them at the farm, but
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  Speaker 1: their seemingly ordinary lives would change forever on Monday, August
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth, twenty sixteen. That day, without any warning, the
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  Speaker 1: family dumped their passports, credit cards, and cell phones on
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen table and ran out the front door, leaving
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  Speaker 1: it unlocked. They hopped into Ella's car and drove north
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  Speaker 1: three kilometers into their journey, and it was discovered that
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  Speaker 1: the son, Mitchell, still had his phone, and so the
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  Speaker 1: others yelled at him to throw it out the window,
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  Speaker 1: and so he did.
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  Speaker 2: He chucked his phone out the window.
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  Speaker 1: The family drove all day and night until they reached
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  Speaker 1: a motel in the New South Wales town of Bathurst,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred kilometers.
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  Speaker 2: Away to the west of Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, Mitchell decided he did not want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of whatever it was they were doing,
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  Speaker 1: and so he abandoned his family and began heading home.
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  Speaker 1: The remaining four family members did not go after Mitchell. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they just piled back in the car and drove east
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  Speaker 1: to a popular tourist destination called the Genoleen Caves. It
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  Speaker 1: was there that the two daughters, Rihanna and Ella, decided
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  Speaker 1: that they also did not want to be a part
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  Speaker 1: of whatever it was they were doing, and so they
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  Speaker 1: snuck away from their parents and stole a car and
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  Speaker 1: began heading home. The parents, after realizing their daughters had
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  Speaker 1: now left, did nothing.
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  Speaker 2: They did not go after them.
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  Speaker 1: The two sisters drove south to the town of Goldburn,
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  Speaker 1: where they called the police to report their parents missing.
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  Speaker 1: The story made its way into the media, where the
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  Speaker 1: family was initially riddi for getting lost in the first
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  Speaker 1: place and getting completely separated in an area they should know. Well,
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  Speaker 1: this is their country. It's not a remote area. They
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  Speaker 1: were near big, established towns. The entire time, it just
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  Speaker 1: didn't make sense. But when police went to the Trump
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  Speaker 1: family farm back in sylvan and they discovered the front
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  Speaker 1: door was unlocked, there were credit cards, passports, and phones
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  Speaker 1: on the table, Suddenly it seemed like there was a
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  Speaker 1: lot more to this case than met the eye. And
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  Speaker 1: so as this strangeness came into focus in the media,
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  Speaker 1: people stopped ridiculing the family and began speculating what caused
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  Speaker 1: them to suddenly flee their house. Was it something in
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  Speaker 1: the water they were drinking. Was there chemicals on the
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  Speaker 1: farm that was screwing up their brain? Were they running
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  Speaker 1: from someone? Were they in debt?
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  Speaker 2: You know? What was it that caused this strange sudden departure.
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  Speaker 1: Back in Goldburn, after reporting their parents missing, Rihanna and
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  Speaker 1: Ella inexplicably separated at a gas station. Rihanna just climbed
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  Speaker 1: in the back of some utility truck and Ella hopped
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  Speaker 1: in the stolen.
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  Speaker 2: Vehicle and started driving home.
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  Speaker 1: Later that night, Ella would become the first Trump family
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  Speaker 1: member to be located by play when.
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  Speaker 2: She arrived at the farm and police were waiting for
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  Speaker 2: her there.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell would arrive back home the following morning, after taking
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  Speaker 1: a series of trains to get there. Once Mitchell and
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  Speaker 1: Ella were reunited, they made a statement to the media
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  Speaker 1: outside of the family farm. And as you're looking at them,
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  Speaker 1: it's clear they're totally shell shocked.
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  Speaker 2: They don't know.
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  Speaker 1: What's happened, and they're trying to articulate why their family
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  Speaker 1: left in the first place, and what they were doing
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  Speaker 1: and where they're going. And the best they could do
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  Speaker 1: was to say, well, there was a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 1: on our family and it was building up and these
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  Speaker 1: things are just difficult to explain, and I don't really
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  Speaker 1: know what.
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  Speaker 2: We were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell would say that there was a belief that people
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  Speaker 1: were after them, there was some paranoia there, but that
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  Speaker 1: paranoia was predominantly held by their parents. While Mitchell and
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  Speaker 1: Ella were certainly in a state of shock, they did
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  Speaker 1: seem mentally stable. The same could not be said for
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  Speaker 1: their sister, Rihanna. She was discovered by the driver of
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  Speaker 1: the truck she had snuck into after he had driven
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  Speaker 1: over an hour away.
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  Speaker 2: He had pulled over to check on something.
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  Speaker 1: He had gone around the back and then had the
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  Speaker 1: life scared out of him when he saw Rihanna just
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  Speaker 1: sitting there in a what he called catatonic state. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't know her name, she didn't know where she was,
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  Speaker 1: She was just sitting there. Rihanna was taken to the
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  Speaker 1: Goldburn Hospital, where she was put into their psychiatric unit.
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  Speaker 1: As media interests grew, the parents, Mark and Kobe got
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  Speaker 1: back in their car up at the Genoleen Caves and
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  Speaker 1: drove south towards Melbourne. A day later, on Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 1: pair had driven six hundred kilometers to the Victorian town
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  Speaker 1: of Wangarata, where they too inexplicably separated. Kobe turned around
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  Speaker 1: and started heading north again by means which are still
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  Speaker 1: a mystery, and a day later was found three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and fifty kilometers away in the town of Yas in
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  Speaker 1: a very agitated state. She was taken to a hospital there,
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  Speaker 1: but then transferred to the Goldburn psychiatric.
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  Speaker 2: Unit to be with her daughter, Rihanna.
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  Speaker 1: Mark stayed in Wangarata and he was there for several days,
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  Speaker 1: and during his time there he was spotted by a
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  Speaker 1: young couple really aggressively tailgating them, and then he was
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  Speaker 1: spotted again on another day, fleeing from the car he
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  Speaker 1: had been driving. Finally, on Saturday evening, all of the
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  Speaker 1: Trump family members were accounted for. When Mark was finally
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  Speaker 1: just sitting next to the road near the Wangarata Airport.
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  Speaker 1: He was questioned by police and then assessed by a
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  Speaker 1: mental health officer, and then was released into the custody
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  Speaker 1: of his brother, who was a police officer, and as
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  Speaker 1: they drove away, Mark turned around and flipped off the
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  Speaker 1: photographers that had converged on the spot. He later released
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  Speaker 1: a more contrite statement apologizing for the hurt and concern
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  Speaker 1: that were caused by these events, and he also paid
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  Speaker 1: respect to the police and the volunteers that went out
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  Speaker 1: looking for them. After the investigation, the police determined that
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  Speaker 1: nobody was chasing this family, they were not in any danger.
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  Speaker 1: The family had also not taken any drugs, they were
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  Speaker 1: not in debt, they were not involved in any sort
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  Speaker 1: of religious cult, and prior to this strange event, the
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  Speaker 1: family had no history of mental health issues. After the
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  Speaker 1: dust had settled and the Trump family was just back
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  Speaker 1: at their farm going about their normal life, every media
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  Speaker 1: outlet wanted an interview with them to try to learn
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  Speaker 1: more about why this strange thing happened, but the family said,
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  Speaker 1: we're not doing interviews, we're not putting out any more statements.
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  Speaker 2: We just want to be left alone.
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  Speaker 1: And so as a result, all people could do was theorize,
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  Speaker 1: and the leading theory was that the Trump family was
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  Speaker 1: suffering from something called fali adu, which is a French
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  Speaker 1: term that means madness for two. And what happens is
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  Speaker 1: one person who is delusional can pass that delusion on
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  Speaker 1: to other people, and this typically only happens in very
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  Speaker 1: close knit families or in very tight romantic relationships. While
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  Speaker 1: it's unclear which of the Tromps became psychotic first, doctors
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  Speaker 1: say it is clear at some point they were in
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  Speaker 1: a cycle of reinforcing each other's delusions.
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  Speaker 2: If this fali ado theory is the right one.
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  Speaker 1: While the full reasons for why the Trumps went on
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  Speaker 1: this strange voyage will probably never be known, the police
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  Speaker 1: deemed it of family.
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  Speaker 2: Matter and did not press charges.
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  Speaker 1: In two thousand and seven, thirty five year old Ava
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  Speaker 1: Vishnerska was a member of the German national paragliding team.
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  Speaker 1: Over the previous two years, Ava had competed in ten
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  Speaker 1: of the world's biggest paragliding competitions and she had won
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  Speaker 1: six of them, making her the top female paraglider in
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  Speaker 1: the world. So coming into that year, Ava was very
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  Speaker 1: motivated to work extra hard to make sure she retained
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  Speaker 1: that title as world champion. On February twenty fourth of
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  Speaker 1: that year, Ava was preparing her gear alongside two hundred
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  Speaker 1: other paragliders on Mount.
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  Speaker 2: Borra in New South Wales, Australia.
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  Speaker 1: This was Ava's last training opportunity before her first major
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  Speaker 1: competition of that year, which was scheduled for the next week.
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  Speaker 1: As they were getting ready to launch, one of the
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  Speaker 1: coaches walked in front of the group and made an announcement.
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  Speaker 1: He said, storm clouds have been spotted to the north,
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  Speaker 1: but the forecast was a little bit ambiguous. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: clear if the storm was going to move over their
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  Speaker 1: training area or not, so it was up to each
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  Speaker 1: of the paragliders if they still wanted to launch that
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  Speaker 1: day and risk the bad weather. Ava, who was really
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  Speaker 1: eager to get this training flight in, looked at the
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  Speaker 1: sky and saw that it was pretty gray, but decided
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  Speaker 1: that she was going to do it. Worst case scenario,
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  Speaker 1: she would have to cut it short. The rest of
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  Speaker 1: the German national team they didn't want to take the risk,
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  Speaker 1: and so they stayed grounded that day. Ava took a
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  Speaker 1: little bit longer preparing her gear, so by the time
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  Speaker 1: she was lining up on the cliff, she was only
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  Speaker 1: one of a handful of people that remained, and so
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  Speaker 1: strapped into her glider, she took a good run forward
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  Speaker 1: and launched herself up into the air on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: The rest of the German national team followed in a
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  Speaker 1: van to track her progress and checked in with her
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  Speaker 1: from time to time with their radio. The first part
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  Speaker 1: of Ava's journey was incredibly calm. She followed the ridgeline
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  Speaker 1: from Mount Borra for twelve miles until it ended.
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  Speaker 2: At that point she entered into the skies over the
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  Speaker 2: vast savannah.
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  Speaker 1: As her GPS and tracking log ticked tracking her progress,
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  Speaker 1: two large thunderstorm clouds appeared in front of her.
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  Speaker 2: One larger than the other.
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  Speaker 1: The vast majority of the other paragliders that had launched
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  Speaker 1: that day had launched ahead of Ava, and so when
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  Speaker 1: these clouds appeared, they had already passed that section and
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  Speaker 1: so they didn't need to contend with the storm. As
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  Speaker 1: for Ava and the other two people she was with,
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  Speaker 1: which was an Austrian team member and a Chinese team member,
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  Speaker 1: they had.
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  Speaker 2: A decision to make.
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  Speaker 1: They could either immediately ground their flight to avoid the storm,
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  Speaker 1: or they could attempt to dodge it.
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  Speaker 2: They chose the latter.
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  Speaker 1: They knew it was too dangerous to try to fly
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  Speaker 1: underneath these clouds because of something called updraft. At the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of storms, warm air is sucked up from the
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  Speaker 1: ground up into these clouds, and a paraglider, if they
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  Speaker 1: get caught in that can get sucked up with the
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  Speaker 1: air into the storm. And so Ava and the other
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  Speaker 1: two paragliders began aggressively flying around the outside of these clouds,
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  Speaker 1: when all of a sudden, the.
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  Speaker 2: Storm completely changed.
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  Speaker 1: The big cloud overtook the small cloud, creating this twelve
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  Speaker 1: mile wide cumulonimbus cloud that now all three paragliders were.
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  Speaker 2: Stuck inside of.
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  Speaker 1: Any updraft is dangerous to a paraglider, but the updraft
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  Speaker 1: of a cumulo nimbus cloud is famously dangerous because it's
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  Speaker 1: extremely powerful and it lasts for over an hour. The
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  Speaker 1: Austrian man was able to pull down on one toggle
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  Speaker 1: point to feet and begins spiraling all the way out
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  Speaker 1: of the grasp of this updraft. And he said he
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  Speaker 1: turned to look at the other two and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: see the Chinese man, but he did see Ava, and
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  Speaker 1: she was desperately trying to do what he was doing
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  Speaker 1: and spiral down, but she was clearly caught in the updraft,
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  Speaker 1: and he watched her get pulled up into the black
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  Speaker 1: cloud of the view. By the time the Austrian man
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  Speaker 1: hit the ground, he would say it had become the
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  Speaker 1: worst thunderstorm he had ever seen, with huge hailballs hitting
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  Speaker 1: the ground all around him.
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  Speaker 2: He took one more look up and he didn't see
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese man. He didn't see Ava.
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  Speaker 1: Anywhere, and he took off running for a barn to
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  Speaker 1: see shelter. And when he was there, he pulled out
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  Speaker 1: his radio and he alerted the other teams of this emergency.
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  Speaker 1: Inside the cloud, Ava was hurtling up like a rocket.
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  Speaker 1: The storm was lifting her at a rate of sixty
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  Speaker 1: feet per second. There was nothing she could do to
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  Speaker 1: get out of this wind tunnel. Ava knew she was
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  Speaker 1: getting pulled towards the storm's eye in its vicious center
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  Speaker 1: because of the immense claps of thunder that just kept
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  Speaker 1: getting louder and louder, and it also kept getting.
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  Speaker 2: Darker and darker all around her.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it was pitch black except for the occasional
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  Speaker 1: flash of lightning that came very close to electrocuting her.
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  Speaker 1: As she desperately tried to keep her glider stable. She
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  Speaker 1: was able to place a radio call down to her
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  Speaker 1: team on the ground, but all she could say was
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  Speaker 1: I can't see anything before it cut out.
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  Speaker 2: And at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Ava reached the eye of the storm, where it's pitch
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  Speaker 1: black and the temperatures are freezing and hailballs the size
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  Speaker 1: of oranges are pelting her left and right, and the
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  Speaker 1: updraft kept pulling her and higher and higher until she
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  Speaker 1: passed out from a lack of oxygen. And at some
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  Speaker 1: point this updraft actually shot her up and out of
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  Speaker 1: the cloud. And while this meant she was out of
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  Speaker 1: the storm, she was now in air that was fifty
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  Speaker 1: degrees below zero, which meant everything her face, her gloves,
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  Speaker 1: her clothes, the wings of her glider, everything completely froze.
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  Speaker 1: And to make matters worse, at the altitude she was
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  Speaker 1: at there was almost no oxygen, and she did not
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  Speaker 1: have a breathing apparatus, so by all accounts, Ava should
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  Speaker 1: be dead, but somehow she didn't die. She just kept
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  Speaker 1: floating around above the storm cloud for forty five minutes, and.
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  Speaker 2: Then something happened.
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  Speaker 1: The ice on one side of the glider broke off,
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  Speaker 1: causing it to collapse, throwing her into a deadly freefall.
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  Speaker 2: And she's not in control.
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  Speaker 1: She's still unconscious, and she starts barreling back towards the
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  Speaker 1: ground like gravity has been turned back on again, going
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  Speaker 1: straight through the storm all over again. And so through
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  Speaker 1: the storm, going at ninety feet per second, she clears
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  Speaker 1: the storm, and then right after getting out underneath it,
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  Speaker 1: her glider miraculously just opens back up again, and the
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: jerking motion of her suddenly stopping her free fall jolted
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  Speaker 1: her awake, and so she's looking around totally confused as
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: she's gradually regaining consciousness, and she's taking stock of where
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  Speaker 1: she is, and she's still.
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  Speaker 2: In the storm cloud, but right at the bottom of it.
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  Speaker 1: But luckily the updraft had stopped, and so she was steady,
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  Speaker 1: and she was able to reach up and grab her toggles,
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  Speaker 1: and she was able to fly herself down to the
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  Speaker 1: ground and crash land, and then she curled into a ball,
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  Speaker 1: grabbed her radio and she called her team. When they
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: heard her voice, they could not believe she was alive
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  Speaker 1: because the other paraglider that got sucked up by the updraft,
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: the guy from the Chinese national team, He unfortunately was
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: struck by lightning and was killed, and so they were
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: anticipating finding out that Ava had been struck by lightning
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: as well.
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  Speaker 2: But Ava had not just survived.
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  Speaker 1: When they brought her to the hospital, they discovered that
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  Speaker 1: virtually nothing was wrong with her.
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  Speaker 2: She had some pretty bad bruises.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: And cuts from the hail, and she had a little
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: bit of frostbite on her face, but it was treatable,
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  Speaker 1: and so the same day she was brought in they
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  Speaker 1: discharged her. Leaving the hospital, she and her teammates went
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  Speaker 1: back to the launch site so she could collect her gear,
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  Speaker 1: and when they got there, she looked at her GPS,
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  Speaker 1: and the GPS had been tracking her entire flight, the
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  Speaker 1: entire time she was up in that cloud, and she
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  Speaker 1: showed her teammates what it said, and they literally couldn't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. The screen showed she had reached an altitude
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• 16:21
  Speaker 1: to put this in perspective, is the same altitude you
• 16:24
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  Speaker 1: outside of your plane in the middle of a flight,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: and that's how high she was.
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  Speaker 2: Another reference point is she.
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  Speaker 1: Was approximately four thousand feet higher than the summit of
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: Mount Everest. No human being had ever been that high,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: unprotected and lived to.
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