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Paranormal event with PROOF - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: In 1967, a man was digging for gold in a
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Speaker 1: forest in Canada when behind him he heard this sudden commotion.
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Speaker 1: It sounded like geese getting really startled and flying off
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Speaker 1: in different directions. And so he put down his pickaxe,
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Speaker 1: he stood up, he turned around, and what he claimed
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Speaker 1: happened next is referred to as the Falcon Lake Incident.
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Speaker 1: And it's considered to be one of the most credible
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Speaker 1: paranormal stories of all time. But before we get into
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. Just before 11 p.m. at
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Speaker 1: night on May 20th, 1967, a 50-year-old man named Stefan
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Speaker 1: McCulloch staggered into the Misericordia Hospital in Winnipeg, Canada. Stefan
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Speaker 1: was so physically weak that his oldest son, Mark, was
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Speaker 1: there with him, physically holding him up, carrying him into
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Speaker 1: the hospital. When the nurses at the front desk saw
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Speaker 1: the pair walk in, they immediately got up and walked
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Speaker 1: around their desk over to these two guys and and said, hey,
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Speaker 1: what's going on? What's wrong with him? And so Stefan
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Speaker 1: at this point is so uncomfortable he can barely talk,
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Speaker 1: but he takes a deep breath and then he tells
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Speaker 1: the nurses that earlier that day he had been burned
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Speaker 1: on his chest and stomach and now he had this
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Speaker 1: blinding headache and he was so nauseous and he could
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Speaker 1: barely walk. The nurses knew clearly this is an emergency
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Speaker 1: and so they quickly ushered the pair down the hall
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Speaker 1: to an exam room and then a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: later doctors came into the room and they asked Stefan
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Speaker 1: to show them his burns. Stefan, who was already lying
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Speaker 1: on his back on the exam table, slowly reaches down
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Speaker 1: and grabs the bottom of his shirt and he lifts
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Speaker 1: it up. And the doctors are stunned at what they
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Speaker 1: see on his stomach. There was a very strange burn
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Speaker 1: pattern that none of them had seen before. And so
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Speaker 1: the doctors, they move in to get a better look
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Speaker 1: at his injury. And as they're staring at it, they
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Speaker 1: ask Stefan to explain how he got this burn. Now,
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Speaker 1: what the doctors didn't realize is that Stefan was very conflicted.
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Speaker 1: He knew if he told the truth about how he
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Speaker 1: got this burn, then he would open himself and his
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Speaker 1: family up to ridicule and skepticism. But as he's laying
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Speaker 1: there and the doctors are waiting for his answer, he
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Speaker 1: finally decides that the right thing to do here is
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Speaker 1: just tell the truth. And so he takes a deep
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Speaker 1: breath and then tells the doctors what happened to him.
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Speaker 1: And by the time he was finished telling this story
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Speaker 1: of what happened to his stomach, The doctors had stopped
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Speaker 1: looking at his injury and instead were just standing in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the room staring at Stefan with eyes
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Speaker 1: wide and their mouths open. They were all literally speechless.
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Speaker 1: Within 24 hours, Stefan's story had made news all over
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Speaker 1: the world and his story had attracted the attention of
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Speaker 1: numerous U.S. and Canadian secretive government agencies including who were
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Speaker 1: keen to interview Stefan one-on-one to really find out what
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Speaker 1: he knew. In short, what Stefan claimed happened to him,
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Speaker 1: dubbed the Falcon Lake incident, was a very big deal. However,
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Speaker 1: the farther this story went and the more people that
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Speaker 1: heard it, the more people started to question the validity
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Speaker 1: of this story. It just seemed too unbelievable that maybe
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Speaker 1: Stefan is just lying or this is a hoax. And
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Speaker 1: so before I tell you Stefan's actual account of what
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Speaker 1: happened at Falcon Lake, I'm going to give you a
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Speaker 1: little context about who Stefan was prior to the incident.
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Speaker 1: Because ultimately, Stefan's credibility in your eyes will determine if
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Speaker 1: you really believe what happened to him. Stefan was born
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Speaker 1: in the early 20th century in Poland, and when World
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Speaker 1: War II broke out, he was captured by the Nazis
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Speaker 1: and put into one of their concentration camps. It was
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Speaker 1: called the Gross Rosenkamp, and it was located in Poland.
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Speaker 1: During his time at that camp, Stefan would bear witness
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Speaker 1: to the Nazis perpetrating some of the worst atrocities ever
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Speaker 1: committed against humanity. In total, approximately 125,000 people were held
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Speaker 1: prisoner at the Gross Rosenkamp. including Stefan. And of those 125,000, 40,000
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Speaker 1: of them would be killed primarily on site at the
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Speaker 1: camp or on a Nazi-led death march. After the camp
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Speaker 1: was finally liberated in early 1945, Stefan worked as a
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Speaker 1: translator for the U.S. Army, helping them continue to liberate
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Speaker 1: other concentration camps across Europe. But by 1946, Stefan was
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Speaker 1: ready to leave Europe, and start a new life somewhere
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Speaker 1: else and put World War II behind him. And so
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Speaker 1: he and his wife, who also was held in a
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Speaker 1: concentration camp during World War II, fled Poland with their
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Speaker 1: three young kids and resettled in Winnipeg, Canada. And for
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Speaker 1: the next 20 years, the McCullochs lived a very peaceful life.
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Speaker 1: Stefan would find work as a mechanic at a cement factory,
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Speaker 1: and his wife and his kids would make many friends
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Speaker 1: and fall in love with the Winnipeg community. However, the
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Speaker 1: McCulloch's life would take a sudden turn for the worst
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Speaker 1: on May 20th, 1967. That was the day of the
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Speaker 1: Falcon Lake incident. Stephan was a very passionate amateur prospector.
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Speaker 1: A prospector is someone who searches the earth for mineral deposits,
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Speaker 1: usually gold or silver. Stephan would spend much of his
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Speaker 1: off time traveling all over Canada to different wilderness areas
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Speaker 1: to basically hike around the forest and up over the mountains,
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Speaker 1: stopping to hack into the earth with his pickaxe in
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Speaker 1: hope of discovering treasures underneath the surface. Now, Stefan almost
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Speaker 1: never found any treasures on any of his prospecting journeys,
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Speaker 1: but he wasn't really in prospecting for the riches. Stefan
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Speaker 1: just loved being outdoors and being in nature. It was
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Speaker 1: very calming and peaceful for him, and considering how traumatic
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Speaker 1: his earlier life had been, being in the concentration camp
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Speaker 1: during World War II... finding moments of peace in his
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Speaker 1: life was very important to him. And so, in May
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Speaker 1: of 1967, Stephan decided to go out on another one
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Speaker 1: of his prospecting trips, this time to an area called
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Speaker 1: Falcon Lake. Falcon Lake is a fairly large lake located
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Speaker 1: about 100 miles to the east of Winnipeg, and surrounding
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Speaker 1: this lake was a big forest that Stephan had heard
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Speaker 1: contained silver deposits from tucked away in the hillsides. And
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Speaker 1: so on Friday, May 19th, Stefan was ready to go
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Speaker 1: on this trip. And so he packed up all of
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Speaker 1: his prospecting equipment. He said goodbye to his wife and
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Speaker 1: his kids. And then he left the house and made
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Speaker 1: his way to the bus stop where he hopped on
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Speaker 1: a Greyhound bus. Two hours later, he got off the
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Speaker 1: bus at the stop closest to Falcon Lake. And from there,
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Speaker 1: he made his way to this cheap motel that was
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Speaker 1: right on the side of the highway. He got a room.
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Speaker 1: He got a quick bite to eat in their cafe.
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Speaker 1: and then returned to his room and went to bed.
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Speaker 1: The next morning, May 20th, 1967, so the day of
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Speaker 1: the Falcon Lake incident, Stefan woke up early, right around
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Speaker 1: 5 a.m. And by 5.30 a.m., he had all of
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Speaker 1: his equipment either in his backpack or on his belt,
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Speaker 1: and he was making his way out of the motel's
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Speaker 1: front doors. Right outside of this motel was the highway
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Speaker 1: that ran left to right, and on the other side
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Speaker 1: of that highway was this huge forest called that Falcon
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Speaker 1: Lake was deep inside of. And so after Stefan left
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Speaker 1: the motel, he crossed over that highway and began walking
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Speaker 1: into the woods. And for the next several hours, Stefan
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Speaker 1: just kind of meandered his way through the woods. He
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Speaker 1: wasn't on a trail. He was just using his compass
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Speaker 1: to make sure he was generally walking in the direction
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Speaker 1: of Falcon Lake. At around 9 a.m., so he's been
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Speaker 1: hiking now for several hours, he looked up ahead and
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Speaker 1: he saw there was a clearing on the side of
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Speaker 1: this hill. And so Stefan walked into this clearing And
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Speaker 1: two things became immediately apparent. One, he was right near
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Speaker 1: Falcon Lake. From his perspective on this clearing, he could
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Speaker 1: look down just a couple of hundred feet and there
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Speaker 1: was the lake. And two, the reason this clearing existed
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Speaker 1: and why no trees were growing on it at all
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Speaker 1: is because under his feet was just a huge rock face,
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Speaker 1: like a quartz vein that was running across this hillside.
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Speaker 1: And so this was like the perfect place for Stefan
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Speaker 1: to begin prospecting. And so he set his things down.
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Speaker 1: He got out his pickaxe. He got his welding gloves on.
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Speaker 1: He put on his welding goggles as well. They protected
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Speaker 1: his eyes from any rocks that were flying as he
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Speaker 1: was hacking into the ground. And then he got to work.
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Speaker 1: For the next couple of hours, Stefan very diligently hacked
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Speaker 1: away at this big rock, but he didn't find any
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Speaker 1: silver or anything else of note. And so around 11 a.m.,
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Speaker 1: Stefan was hungry and tired. And so he put his
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Speaker 1: pickaxe down. He took his goggles off. He took his
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Speaker 1: gloves off. and he sat down on this rock facing
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Speaker 1: the lake to have some lunch. And as he sat
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Speaker 1: there enjoying his food, all he could hear in the
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Speaker 1: distance were the sound of a few geese down on
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Speaker 1: the lake making some noise, but other than that, it
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Speaker 1: was totally quiet. After he was done eating, he put
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Speaker 1: his gear back on and got back to work. About
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Speaker 1: an hour later, at around 12.15 p.m., Stefan was still
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Speaker 1: hacking away at the rock, when, despite all the noise
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Speaker 1: he was making as he smashed the ground with his pickaxe,
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Speaker 1: he could hear a really loud commotion coming from behind him.
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Speaker 1: And it turned out when he stopped the pickaxe, the
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Speaker 1: commotion sounded like geese honking and going wild. And so
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Speaker 1: he dropped his pickaxe, he took his goggles, put them
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Speaker 1: up on his forehead, and then he stood up and
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Speaker 1: he turned around and he looked down towards the lake
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Speaker 1: where he heard all these geese going crazy. And the
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Speaker 1: first thing he noticed was there were some geese on
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Speaker 1: the lake that appeared to be flying off in different
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Speaker 1: directions like they had been startled. But what really immediately
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Speaker 1: caught his attention was not the geese, but what had
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Speaker 1: very likely startled the geese. And that was two bright
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Speaker 1: glowing red objects that that were flying slowly across the
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Speaker 1: lake towards him, kind of roughly over where the geese were. Yesterday,
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Speaker 1: my pet frog, Seagull Lung, and I went to the
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Speaker 1: frog park. And as I watched old Lungy gallop over
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Speaker 1: to his other frog friends to join their game of Hi-Li,
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10:49
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10:52
Speaker 1: we were speeding home at over 100 miles per hour,
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Speaker 1: where we... crashed into the front of the house. And
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Speaker 1: then after climbing out of the twisted steel and wreckage,
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Speaker 1: And now these objects, they were cylindrical. They appeared to
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Speaker 1: be about maybe 30 or 40 feet wide. They didn't
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Speaker 1: have any sort of emission coming off of them. They
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Speaker 1: weren't making any noise. They were just kind of slowly
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Speaker 1: making their way over towards where Stefan was. Now, as
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Speaker 1: Stefan is watching this happen, he wasn't fearful. He assumed
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Speaker 1: those have to be military aircraft. As it was, this
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Speaker 1: part of Canada, Falcon Lake, is very remote. There's not
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Speaker 1: many people around. And so logically, it made sense that
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Speaker 1: perhaps There's a military that's doing training exercises in this area.
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Speaker 1: And so feeling much more intrigued than fearful, Stefan just
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Speaker 1: continued to watch as these red aircraft got closer and
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Speaker 1: closer to his side of the lake. And then when
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Speaker 1: these two craft were about 200 feet away from where
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Speaker 1: Stefan was standing, they came to a stop and they
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Speaker 1: were just hovering in the air. And then one of
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Speaker 1: the craft suddenly turned orange and began going up into
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Speaker 1: the clouds. And then at some point just vanished. And
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Speaker 1: then the other craft, instead of going up, just continued
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Speaker 1: descending very slowly. Now, very clearly towards this open rock
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Speaker 1: face that Stefan was standing on. Now, again, Stefan was
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Speaker 1: totally convinced that that these were military aircraft, you know,
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Speaker 1: conducting some sort of exercise. And so he's not fearful.
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Speaker 1: He is just intrigued by what he's seeing. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: by this point, he had convinced himself that this second
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Speaker 1: aircraft that was now coming down to land on these
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Speaker 1: rocks must have experienced some sort of issue and they
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Speaker 1: were landing in order to fix it. And Stefan even
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Speaker 1: thought to himself, well, hey, I'm a mechanic. Maybe I
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Speaker 1: can help the pilot or pilots with whatever's going on
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Speaker 1: with their craft. Once the craft finally did touch down
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Speaker 1: on the rocks about 150 feet away from Stefan, it
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Speaker 1: changed colors from red to stainless steel with an orange
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Speaker 1: glow around the outside of the aircraft. And inside of
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Speaker 1: this craft, a really bright purple light came on that
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Speaker 1: Stefan was only aware of because there was a couple
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Speaker 1: of small holes there. on the outside of this craft
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Speaker 1: where this purple light was coming through. But these little
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Speaker 1: rays of purple light coming out of this craft were
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Speaker 1: so bright that it actually was hard for Stefan to
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Speaker 1: look directly at the craft. And so his welding goggles
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Speaker 1: were still on his forehead. So he pulled them down,
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Speaker 1: put them over his eyes and his welding goggles had
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Speaker 1: a kind of tint to them. So it was like
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Speaker 1: he was looking through sunglasses. And with those on, he
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Speaker 1: was able to continue looking at the craft. And so
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Speaker 1: through his goggles, Stefan is still just standing in the
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Speaker 1: same spot where he first saw these craft. And he's
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Speaker 1: watching this craft that's now landed 150 feet away from him.
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Speaker 1: And he's fully expecting any minute for the pilot or
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Speaker 1: pilots to come out of the craft and explain what's
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Speaker 1: going on. But at first... nothing happens. And so Stefan
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Speaker 1: is just standing there waiting for something to happen when
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Speaker 1: he realizes he has his sketchbook in his pocket. Stefan
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Speaker 1: liked to bring his sketchbook along on his prospecting trips
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Speaker 1: because he liked to sketch things. And so he figured
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Speaker 1: while he waited for the pilot or pilots to emerge,
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Speaker 1: he would sketch the craft. And so for the next
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes, that's what he did. And then after
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Speaker 1: he was done sketching it, he put his sketchbook away
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Speaker 1: and then really nothing happened for about another 30 minutes.
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Speaker 1: He just stood there and and the craft remained motionless.
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Speaker 1: But after about 30 minutes of the craft having landed,
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Speaker 1: it opened. There was like a sliding door on the
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Speaker 1: side of the craft facing Stefan, and it revealed the beautiful, bright,
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Speaker 1: purple interior of this craft. But from Stefan's perspective, because
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Speaker 1: of how bright the lights were and how far away
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Speaker 1: he was, he couldn't tell what was inside of the craft.
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Speaker 1: But Stefan's thinking, okay, clearly now the pilot or pilots
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Speaker 1: are coming outside. And so Stefan felt really relieved and
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Speaker 1: he was just standing there waiting to talk to whoever
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Speaker 1: was inside. But again, nothing happened. And so now feeling
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Speaker 1: just plain curious, Stefan decided, you know what? I'm going
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Speaker 1: to walk over there and I'm going to yell into
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Speaker 1: this open door to the pilot or pilots inside and
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Speaker 1: make sure they're okay. And so he starts slowly making
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Speaker 1: his way across the rock face towards this craft and
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Speaker 1: this open door. And when he gets about 60 feet
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Speaker 1: away from the craft, he suddenly stops because now he
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Speaker 1: can hear from inside of this craft the sound of
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Speaker 1: two voices talking to each other. He can't really tell
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Speaker 1: what they're saying, but very clearly there is communication happening
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Speaker 1: inside of this craft. And so Stefan assumed that must
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Speaker 1: be the pilots. And so he called out to them
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Speaker 1: in English. And the second Stefan yelled out to this craft,
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Speaker 1: The voices immediately came to a stop and they did
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Speaker 1: not respond to Stefan. And so Stefan is calling out
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Speaker 1: to them in English, you know, hey, are you okay?
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Speaker 1: What are you doing in there? And when English didn't work,
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Speaker 1: Stefan called out in Russian. He called out in German, Italian, French, Ukrainian.
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Speaker 1: And when all of those didn't work, he went back
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Speaker 1: to English and just continued kind of calling out, trying
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Speaker 1: to get them to please come out and talk to him.
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Speaker 1: But he got no response and no one came out
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Speaker 1: of the craft. And so at this point, Stefan thought, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm totally committed, so I need to keep going and
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Speaker 1: make sure the pilot or pilots are okay. And so
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Speaker 1: he continued walking closer and closer to this open door
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Speaker 1: of the craft. And when he got about 10 feet away,
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Speaker 1: he was suddenly struck by the incredible craftsmanship of this craft.
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Speaker 1: He couldn't see any rivets anywhere on this amazing piece
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Speaker 1: of machinery, meaning this craft appeared unnoticed. like it had
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Speaker 1: somehow been carved out of one enormous piece of steel,
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Speaker 1: which seemed totally impossible. Also, Stefan noticed there were no
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Speaker 1: insignia on the outside of this craft. There was no
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Speaker 1: flag or anything kind of denoting who was flying it.
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Speaker 1: There was really nothing on the outside of the craft.
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Speaker 1: But Stefan just kept on going until he was standing
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Speaker 1: right outside of this open door. He's only a couple
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Speaker 1: feet away from it. And now he's looking directly inside
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Speaker 1: and he doesn't see the pilot or pilots. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: because of how bright this purple light is coming out,
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Speaker 1: even with his goggles, it's really hard to see what's
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Speaker 1: inside of this craft, but he can clearly see inside.
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Speaker 1: There was some sort of panel in the back of
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Speaker 1: the craft with lots of flashing lights, almost like a computer.
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Speaker 1: And there were other kinds of columns of light moving
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Speaker 1: around inside the craft at different angles. But after looking
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Speaker 1: in this craft for only a few seconds, The door
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Speaker 1: suddenly slid shut. And then Stefan, without really thinking about it,
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Speaker 1: reached out and touched the craft. And the second he
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Speaker 1: did that, two things happened. One, the hand that he
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Speaker 1: touched the craft with, he was wearing a big welding glove.
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Speaker 1: And the second he made contact with that craft, the
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Speaker 1: leather glove began to melt. Not even catch on fire,
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Speaker 1: it just instantly began to melt. And so he began
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Speaker 1: frantically ripping the glove off to get it off of
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Speaker 1: him to avoid injury. And then the second thing that
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Speaker 1: happened is the craft began rotating counterclockwise until this vent
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Speaker 1: that was on the outside of the craft. One of
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Speaker 1: the very few things that was on the outside of
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Speaker 1: the craft that actually Stefan had noted in his sketch.
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Speaker 1: He had drawn this grate that sat on the outside
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Speaker 1: of the craft. This grate. rotated around until it was
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Speaker 1: aimed directly at Stefan. Now to picture this great picture,
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Speaker 1: like a vent you would see inside of a building
19:58
Speaker 1: where air conditioning blows air out of, right? It's kind
20:01
Speaker 1: of like that same size, the size of a license
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Speaker 1: plate on a car. And instead of there being vertical
20:06
Speaker 1: slats along the vent, like you would see with an
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Speaker 1: air conditioning vent cover, on this vent, on this craft,
20:13
Speaker 1: it was like a checkerboard pattern with little buttonholes all
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Speaker 1: over this vent. And so Stefan is looking at this
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Speaker 1: vent and then suddenly something shoots through the vent like
20:23
Speaker 1: an explosion that hits him square in the chest and
20:26
Speaker 1: lights him on fire. His shirt is literally in flames.
20:29
Speaker 1: And so Stefan is frantically trying to rip off his shirt.
20:32
Speaker 1: He throws it on the ground. He's stomping the flame.
20:34
Speaker 1: And as he's doing that, he looks up. and sees
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Speaker 1: this craft has somehow immediately shot into the sky and
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Speaker 1: is now disappearing into the clouds. Now, Stefan had no
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Speaker 1: idea what just happened. All he knew is his chest
20:48
Speaker 1: and his stomach now hurt tremendously. But before he could
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Speaker 1: deal with that, he developed this unbelievable headache, he suddenly
20:56
Speaker 1: felt so nauseous, and he felt delirious like he was drunk.
21:00
Speaker 1: Trying not to panic, Stefan, who now is shirtless and
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Speaker 1: badly burned, He ran over and grabbed some of his things,
21:08
Speaker 1: and then he began heading back into the woods to
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Speaker 1: make his way back towards the motel. It would take
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Speaker 1: him several hours of stumbling through the forest, stopping periodically
21:16
Speaker 1: to vomit, but he would eventually reach the highway, he
21:19
Speaker 1: would cross over, and he would make his way into
21:21
Speaker 1: the motel right around 4 p.m. And when he got there,
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Speaker 1: he made his way into the cafe and he asked
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Speaker 1: the staff if they knew where the nearest doctor was.
21:30
Speaker 1: These staff members would later tell investigators that when Stefan
21:34
Speaker 1: came tumbling into the cafe without his shirt on, looking
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Speaker 1: totally horrible, they assumed he was drunk. But after talking
21:41
Speaker 1: to him, he didn't smell at all like alcohol. Instead,
21:44
Speaker 1: he reeked of this horrible sulfur smell. The staff would
21:48
Speaker 1: tell Stefan that the nearest doctor was 45 miles away.
21:52
Speaker 1: And so at this point, Stefan decided his best bet
21:54
Speaker 1: was actually to just get on a bus and go
21:56
Speaker 1: back to Winnipeg where his family could take him to
21:59
Speaker 1: the nearest hospital. And so somehow Stefan managed to make
22:03
Speaker 1: his way to the bus stop. He hopped on a
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Speaker 1: Greyhound bus. He went to Winnipeg and then his oldest son, Mark,
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Speaker 1: met him at the bus stop and practically carried him
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Speaker 1: into the hospital. The very strange checkerboard burn pattern found
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Speaker 1: on Stefan's abdomen where he claims this craft turned its
22:20
Speaker 1: vent open then fired on him, were determined not to
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Speaker 1: be thermal burns, meaning he didn't get them from something
22:27
Speaker 1: hot touching his skin like everyone initially suspected. Instead, they
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Speaker 1: were determined to be chemical burns, but literally no one, doctors, scientists,
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Speaker 1: government agencies, no one could figure out what chemical actually
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Speaker 1: burned his skin. In fact, no one was ever able
22:46
Speaker 1: to actually identify what was causing all of these ailments
22:50
Speaker 1: that Stefan was complaining of, from the headache, to the nausea,
22:53
Speaker 1: to the weakness, to these burns. And he was tested
22:56
Speaker 1: for basically everything, from radiation poisoning to very common ailments
23:00
Speaker 1: and illnesses, and everything came back negative. Experts would go
23:05
Speaker 1: out to Falcon Lake, to the area that Stefan described
23:08
Speaker 1: seeing this craft, and sure enough, they would find an
23:11
Speaker 1: open rock face And right around the area that Stefan
23:14
Speaker 1: described was the circular burn pattern as if something had
23:18
Speaker 1: been perched right there that shot some sort of exhaust
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Speaker 1: into the ground. And the area around this landing site
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Speaker 1: was determined to be highly radioactive. Although it is assumed
23:29
Speaker 1: that the reason that area is radioactive is because there
23:32
Speaker 1: is a vein of radium that runs underneath the rocks
23:35
Speaker 1: near the area. However, what no one could explain away
23:39
Speaker 1: is were the three identical pieces of what looked like metal,
23:43
Speaker 1: which actually turned out to be a very rare type
23:45
Speaker 1: of silver, that were located near this burn circle. Now,
23:49
Speaker 1: even though the Falcon Lake area was known apparently for
23:53
Speaker 1: having silver deposits up in the hillsides, this silver, these
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Speaker 1: three pieces of silver, were not from the hillsides of
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Speaker 1: Falcon Lake. This silver was heavily manufactured. Someone, something, some
24:06
Speaker 1: machine had manipulated the metal to bend and be cut
24:10
Speaker 1: in a very particular way. And all three of these
24:13
Speaker 1: pieces of very rare silver were highly radioactive. They would
24:17
Speaker 1: also find traces of this very rare type of silver
24:21
Speaker 1: that seemed to have seeped into some of the loose
24:25
Speaker 1: rocks that were inside of that burned out circle, almost
24:28
Speaker 1: like the silver itself. had melted into the rock. But
24:32
Speaker 1: despite these pieces of evidence that do seem to suggest
24:36
Speaker 1: that Stefan really did see some craft land on these rocks,
24:41
Speaker 1: and despite the fact that the US government and the
24:44
Speaker 1: Canadian government both thoroughly investigated this case and they were
24:48
Speaker 1: not able to debunk it, they basically said, well, something happened,
24:52
Speaker 1: but we don't know what. Despite all of that, Stefan
24:56
Speaker 1: and his family's lives were forever upended after this incident.
25:00
Speaker 1: Stefan was ridiculed and accused of lying and of being crazy,
25:05
Speaker 1: and his kids were unfortunately bullied at school. Shortly before
25:09
Speaker 1: Stefan died in 1999 at the age of 83, he
25:13
Speaker 1: was asked if he regretted coming forward with this story.
25:16
Speaker 1: And he would say, yes, I wish I never told anyone.
25:20
Speaker 1: But he would also say at the time, he really
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Speaker 1: felt like he had a duty to tell the world
25:25
Speaker 1: about what happened. Stefan never changed his story and he
25:29
Speaker 1: never came out and said, I think this craft came
25:32
Speaker 1: from another world, another planet, another universe. He just said, look,
25:36
Speaker 1: I think it was an experimental aircraft. That's it. He
25:40
Speaker 1: also never made a dime on this experience. If anything,
25:43
Speaker 1: he lost money because he paid for to write a
25:47
Speaker 1: 40-page pamphlet that explained what happened to him. And then
25:51
Speaker 1: he left all these copies on his porch. So if
25:54
Speaker 1: news people showed up or if nosy neighbors showed up
25:56
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25:58
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