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  Speaker 1: In the winter of nineteen eighty five, a large American
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  Speaker 1: black bear was wandering through a forest in Georgia when
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  Speaker 1: it saw something strange lying out on the forest floor. Interested,
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  Speaker 1: the bear wandered over and began pawing at it and
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  Speaker 1: slashing at it, until finally the bear ripped this thing open,
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  Speaker 1: and immediately this strange, flowery smell filled the air. Less
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  Speaker 1: than ten minutes later, that bear would experience something that
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  Speaker 1: literally no other living thing on Earth has ever experienced.
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  Speaker 1: And that is just the beginning of one of the
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  Speaker 1: strangest stories that's about to take the world by storm
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  Speaker 1: because a major motion picture has been made about this
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  Speaker 1: bear that's going to be released in February of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. But before we get into this totally bizarre story,
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  Speaker 1: In early December of nineteen eighty five, in the Chattahoochee
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  Speaker 1: National Forest in northern Georgia, a hunter was very carefully
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  Speaker 1: making his way through the trees trying to track a deer. Now,
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  Speaker 1: this hunter had been tracking this dear for over a mile,
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  Speaker 1: but it had been a while since he had seen
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  Speaker 1: any signs of it being anywhere nearby. And as this
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  Speaker 1: hunter continued to creep along, he became increasingly aware of
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  Speaker 1: how loud each of his steps were because the ground
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  Speaker 1: all around him was covered in dry leaves, and so
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  Speaker 1: every step he was taking was creating a loud crunching sound.
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  Speaker 1: And so eventually this hunter just came to a and
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  Speaker 1: decided stalking this deer was totally pointless because he was
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  Speaker 1: basically scaring it away with these crunching sounds as he
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  Speaker 1: got closer to it. But before this hunter was ready
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  Speaker 1: to just give up and head back to his vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: he continued on a little bit further, and when he
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  Speaker 1: pushed through this particularly dense brush area, he saw this
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  Speaker 1: clearing up ahead. And the second he saw what was
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  Speaker 1: in this clearing, he froze, took a step back into
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  Speaker 1: the brush, and then ducked down behind a rock, because
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  Speaker 1: in that clearing he saw an animal and it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a deer. It was a huge American black bear. Now,
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, American black bears are not aggressive towards humans. However, if,
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  Speaker 1: for example, you were to accidentally sneak up on a
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  Speaker 1: black bear like this hunter had done, and you suddenly
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  Speaker 1: startled it by just showing your presence, the bear might
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  Speaker 1: react by pouncing on you and ripping you to bits.
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  Speaker 1: And so this hunter, with his bat pressed up against
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  Speaker 1: the rock and his rifle grip tightly across his chest,
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking about that, wondering what he's gonna do to
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  Speaker 1: get out of this situation. At first, he thought, okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just stand up and quietly walk away, But then
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  Speaker 1: he remembered how loud the leaves were, and even though
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  Speaker 1: he had been lucky walking in, he hadn't alerted the
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  Speaker 1: bear to his presence on the way out. He was
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  Speaker 1: worried he wouldn't be so lucky that those leaves would
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  Speaker 1: alert the bear to his position. And so the hunter
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  Speaker 1: began thinking, okay, well, what if I just stand up
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  Speaker 1: and start shooting at this bear. But the hunter knew
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  Speaker 1: the big issue with that plan is he had a
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  Speaker 1: deer hunting rifle, which is not nearly powerful enough to
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  Speaker 1: quickly take down a black bear, if at all, And
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  Speaker 1: so if he starts shooting at this bear, there was
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  Speaker 1: a very good chance that the bear would just turn
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  Speaker 1: around and maul him before he was able to put
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  Speaker 1: the bear down with his rifle. And so as this
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  Speaker 1: hunter is going through these scenarios behind the rock, he
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  Speaker 1: realizes something. He hasn't heard this bear at all. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Bears in general are very loud animals. Just their regular
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  Speaker 1: breathing is so guttural and noisy that you can hear
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  Speaker 1: it a pretty good distance away. And the hunter's thinking
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  Speaker 1: to himself, I can't hear it breathing, And come to
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  Speaker 1: think of it, I haven't heard this bear once since
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  Speaker 1: I've been near it. And so the hunter very carefully
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  Speaker 1: stood up from behind his rock and turned around, and
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  Speaker 1: then he kind of peered forward into the brush, looking
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  Speaker 1: back into this clearing, and when he spotted the bear again,
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  Speaker 1: he realized immediately the bear was dead. The bear was
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  Speaker 1: kind of slumped forward, and its body almost looked like
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  Speaker 1: a deflated balloon. The hunter was so relieved he almost
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  Speaker 1: started laughing, and so he stepped out from behind his
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  Speaker 1: rock and he made his way through the brush into
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  Speaker 1: the clearing to get a better look at the spear.
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  Speaker 1: And when the hunter was right over the top of
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  Speaker 1: this bear looking down at it, something immediately struck him
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  Speaker 1: as very odd. This bear was far too young to
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  Speaker 1: have died of natural causes. However, after this hunter kind
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  Speaker 1: of poked and prodded the bear and lifted it up
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  Speaker 1: on either side to try to look underneath it, he
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  Speaker 1: couldn't see any visible injuries. It was like this bear
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  Speaker 1: had just randomly dropped dead. But the hunter didn't spend
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  Speaker 1: much time thinking about what happened to this bear. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he thought to himself, you know, there has to be
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  Speaker 1: some sort of logical explanation for what killed it. And
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  Speaker 1: with one last look at the bear on the ground,
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  Speaker 1: the hunter turned around and began the long walk back
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  Speaker 1: through the woods back to his vehicle. It would turn
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  Speaker 1: out there was an explanation for what happened to that bear. However,
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  Speaker 1: it was anything but logical. But to get to that
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  Speaker 1: non logical explanation, we first have to go back in
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  Speaker 1: time around eleven thirty PM on September tenth, nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: so three months before the hunter discovered this dead bear.
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  Speaker 1: Two pilots were flying their little six seater Cessna airplane
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  Speaker 1: over northern Georgia, making their way north towards Tennessee. And
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  Speaker 1: as these pilots flew along very casually, they suddenly intercepted
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  Speaker 1: over their radio a voice message that they definitely were
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to hear. It sounded like other pilots communicating
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  Speaker 1: with each other, and what they were talking about was
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  Speaker 1: how they were now going to follow this little Sesna
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  Speaker 1: airplane that they could see that was currently flying over
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  Speaker 1: northern Georgia. Now, radio traffic like this can only really
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  Speaker 1: be intercepted if your radio that's doing the intercepting is
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  Speaker 1: physically close to the person doing the transmitting. And so
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  Speaker 1: knowing this, the two pilots in this little Sesna knew
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  Speaker 1: that whoever was talking about following that little Sesna they
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  Speaker 1: had to be talking about them, the two pilots in
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  Speaker 1: that Sesna. Now, for most pilots, if you suddenly overheard
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  Speaker 1: a radio transmission that your plane was getting followed by
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  Speaker 1: some other pilots, you might reach out to those pilots
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  Speaker 1: and say, hey, why are you following me? What's going
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  Speaker 1: on now? The copilot of this little Sesna might have
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  Speaker 1: wanted to react that way. However, before he could, the
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  Speaker 1: main pilot stopped him and said, I actually know exactly
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  Speaker 1: why somebody might want to tail us, and unfortunately we're
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  Speaker 1: both gonna have to jump out of this plane. Before
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  Speaker 1: the copilot could really even react to this news, the
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  Speaker 1: main pilot had set the Cessna on autopilot, which sets
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  Speaker 1: the plane to fly in a straight direction, going at
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  Speaker 1: a constant speed at a constant altitude until either a
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  Speaker 1: pilot comes back and takes the craft back over, or
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  Speaker 1: if it just stays on autopilot, it eventually will run
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  Speaker 1: out of fuel and crash or run into something. And
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  Speaker 1: so after the main pilot had done that, he turned
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  Speaker 1: to the co pilot and gestured for him to come
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  Speaker 1: with him into the main cabin of the aircraft, basically
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  Speaker 1: the main body of the craft where all their luggage was.
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  Speaker 1: And the co pilot he's so confused about what's happening,
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  Speaker 1: he's so panicked that he just follows the main pilot.
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  Speaker 1: So the two of them they climb back over the
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  Speaker 1: two front seats that go into the main body of
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  Speaker 1: the craft, and the main pilot begins strapping parachutes onto
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  Speaker 1: some of their luggage, and as he's doing this, he
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  Speaker 1: tells the co pilot to open up the side door
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  Speaker 1: of the plane. And so again the copilot is just
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  Speaker 1: so caught off guard. He has no idea how to
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  Speaker 1: handle this, and so he reaches over and he slides
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  Speaker 1: open this door of this moving plane, and as soon
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  Speaker 1: as he did, this huge rush of cold night air
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  Speaker 1: blasted inside of the cabin and it became so loud
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  Speaker 1: from the howling wind coming in that the two pilots
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even talk to each other. And then the main
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  Speaker 1: pilot just began pushing the luggage out of the plane,
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  Speaker 1: just into the night, falling straight down to the ground
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  Speaker 1: far far below them, and at some point the co
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  Speaker 1: pilot just joined him and began pushing the luggage out
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  Speaker 1: of the plane. And then after all the luggage was out,
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  Speaker 1: the main pilot shoved a parachute into the hands of
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  Speaker 1: the co pilot and said, you know, put it on.
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  Speaker 1: He had a gesture for it, because they couldn't hear
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  Speaker 1: each other, and so as this coat pilot struggling to
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  Speaker 1: get on his parachute, the main pilot puts on his chute,
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  Speaker 1: and then right after the co pilot has just barely
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  Speaker 1: got his parachute on, the main pilot pushes him out
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  Speaker 1: the side of the plane, and then the main pilot
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  Speaker 1: jumps out after him. So they basically abandoned their plane,
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  Speaker 1: which was still set to autopilot, so at some point
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  Speaker 1: it was just going to crash. About five hours later,
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  Speaker 1: in a suburb of Knoxville, Tennessee, an eighty five year
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  Speaker 1: old man named Fred Myers was just waking up. Fred
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  Speaker 1: always got up before sunrise. It was part of his
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  Speaker 1: daily routine. He would wake up, he would get dressed,
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  Speaker 1: he would wash and shave his face, and then he
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  Speaker 1: would sit down and read the local newspaper. This simple
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  Speaker 1: routine was actually very important to Fred because recently he
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  Speaker 1: had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, which is a progressive
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  Speaker 1: disease that destroys memory, and so having this sort of
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  Speaker 1: set routine helped him manage his symptoms. Basically, at least
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  Speaker 1: in the morning, he could go into autopilot and go
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  Speaker 1: through this routine and not get confused. However, on this
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  Speaker 1: particular morning, something would happen that would leave Fred more
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  Speaker 1: confused than he had ever been in his entire life.
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  Speaker 1: Fred had made it to his bathroom, he had washed
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  Speaker 1: his face, and he had begun shaving, when out of
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  Speaker 1: the corner of his eye, he noticed something strange outside
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  Speaker 1: in his driveway. He could see it through a nearby window,
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  Speaker 1: but it was still so dark outside. Fred couldn't tell
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  Speaker 1: what this thing was out there, and so, feeling very curious,
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  Speaker 1: Fred put his razorblade down and he made his way
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  Speaker 1: over to the window to get a better look. And
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  Speaker 1: when he reached the window and looked out at his
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  Speaker 1: driveway and saw what this strange thing was, he could
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  Speaker 1: not believe his eyes. There was this huge parachute out
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  Speaker 1: on his driveway, and on the parachute was the main
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  Speaker 1: pilot of the Cessna. After the main pilot had pushed
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  Speaker 1: the copilot out and leapt out himself, when he pulled
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  Speaker 1: his ripcord, his chute either didn't deploy, or when it deployed,
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  Speaker 1: it didn't inflate fully, and so he was forced to
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  Speaker 1: go to his reserve chute, but it didn't inflate fast
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  Speaker 1: enough to stop him from crashing into the ground, and
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  Speaker 1: so the main pilot slammed into the ground basically at
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  Speaker 1: terminal velocity, and so he sustained catastrophic internal injuries and
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  Speaker 1: he died within a couple of minutes of hitting the ground.
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  Speaker 1: Fred was so stunned and confused at what he was
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  Speaker 1: looking at that without saying a word, he just turned
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  Speaker 1: away from his window and walked over to his phone
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  Speaker 1: and called the police, shaving creams still on his face.
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  Speaker 1: When the police arrived at Fred's house that morning, they
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  Speaker 1: were expecting to see a dead recreational skydiver on Fred's property,
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  Speaker 1: But when they walked up the driveway and saw the
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  Speaker 1: dead man for themselves, they knew right away this was
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  Speaker 1: not some recreational skydiver. He actually looked more like a soldier.
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  Speaker 1: He was wearing a bulletproof vest over some camouflage fatigues,
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  Speaker 1: and he had night vision goggles strapped to his head.
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  Speaker 1: But the dead man's shoe choice made the police think
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  Speaker 1: this guy could not possibly have been military because on
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  Speaker 1: this guy's feet were not military style combat boots like
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  Speaker 1: you would expect with the rest of his get up. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: he was wearing loafers, specifically Gucci loafers, so very expensive
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  Speaker 1: designer shoes, and so the police are thinking to themselves,
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  Speaker 1: who the heck was the sky and what was he doing?
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  Speaker 1: The police would figure that out. However, first we have
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  Speaker 1: to fast forward to two months to late November nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty five, so roughly two weeks before that bear was
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  Speaker 1: discovered by that hunter in Chattahoochee National Forest. Now, at
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  Speaker 1: this point in late November, that black bear was alive
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  Speaker 1: and well and living a typical black bear life in
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  Speaker 1: the Chattahoochee National Forest, which meant he mostly spent his
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  Speaker 1: time wandering around the woods looking for something to eat.
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  Speaker 1: And on this particular day in November, the bear was
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  Speaker 1: doing just that when out of the corner of his
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  Speaker 1: eye he spotted something strange lying on the forest floor.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of the pieces of luggage that the
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  Speaker 1: two pilots had pushed out of their plane. It was
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  Speaker 1: this big, heavy duffel bag. Now, the bear had no
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  Speaker 1: idea if this duffel bag contained food, but the bear
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  Speaker 1: was optimistic, so it meandered its way over and began
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  Speaker 1: pawing at the bag with its massive claws, and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much immediately his claws tore open a hole in this bag,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly the air all around this bear was filled
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  Speaker 1: with this glorious flowery smell. Oh, the bear put its
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  Speaker 1: nose directly into this rip in the bag and began
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  Speaker 1: sniffing and licking the contents of this bag. And apparently
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  Speaker 1: the bear just loved it, because it ate whatever was
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  Speaker 1: inside of the back, all of it. And when he
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  Speaker 1: was done, the bear felt so good. He was so
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  Speaker 1: full of energy that he just started sprinting in a
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  Speaker 1: straight direction, and after running at top speed about one
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  Speaker 1: hundred yards, every major system inside of this bear shut
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  Speaker 1: down all at once, and he died on the spot,
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  Speaker 1: collapsing in that clearing. And then about two weeks later,
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  Speaker 1: that hunter walked into the Chattahoochee National Forest and discovered
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  Speaker 1: this dead bear. And then within twenty four hours, the
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  Speaker 1: hunter was back home and he told one of his
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  Speaker 1: friends about discovering this dead bear. And when he told
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  Speaker 1: his friend about seeing this bear, he also kind of
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  Speaker 1: casually mentioned that he had seen a duffel bag in
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  Speaker 1: the forest not far from this dead bear. Now, to
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  Speaker 1: understand what this friend did next, he needs some context.
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  Speaker 1: By this point in time, the police had actually figured
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  Speaker 1: out a lot about that dead man on Fred Myers's driveway,
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  Speaker 1: the main pilot of the Sesna. They knew he was
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  Speaker 1: a forty year old man named Andrew Thornton who had
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  Speaker 1: served in the US Army as a paratrooper, but after
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  Speaker 1: getting out of the service, he had kind of gone
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  Speaker 1: astray in his life and become a big time smuggler
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  Speaker 1: of illegal goods. The police had also figured out by
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  Speaker 1: this point that Andrew, along with a co pilot, had
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  Speaker 1: been the people flying that Cesna that eventually was found
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  Speaker 1: crashed into a mountainside in North Carolina. The co pilot
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  Speaker 1: had survived the jump out of the Cesna, and so
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  Speaker 1: the police tracked him down and they very quickly realized
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  Speaker 1: this co pilot was really just a victim of Andrew.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew had told this guy they were just going to
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  Speaker 1: fly to the Bahamas for a vacation, and so when
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  Speaker 1: that plan completely evaporated and suddenly Andrew is barking orders
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  Speaker 1: at the sky to open up the plane and push
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  Speaker 1: the luggage out and jump out, the copilot said he
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  Speaker 1: just totally paid and just started doing whatever Andrew wanted.
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  Speaker 1: And so this guy was just totally terrified and really
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  Speaker 1: all he could offer police was just to confirm that yup,
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  Speaker 1: Andrew was the main pilot, and yes, we really did
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  Speaker 1: push his luggage out of the side of the plane
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  Speaker 1: over some forest in northern Georgia. The police believed the
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  Speaker 1: co pilot and did not charge him with any crime.
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  Speaker 1: The police would go and search all over Northern Georgia
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  Speaker 1: and they would find the majority of the missing bags. However,
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  Speaker 1: they knew they were still missing some and they knew
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  Speaker 1: they really needed to recover them. And so around the
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  Speaker 1: time that this hunter is telling his friend about this
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  Speaker 1: far encounter and this Duffel bag, the police were constantly
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  Speaker 1: having news outlets tell people in Northern Georgia that if
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  Speaker 1: you see one of these Duffel bags attached to a
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  Speaker 1: big parachute or something, please come forward and tell us
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  Speaker 1: we are looking for these. And so the hunter's friend thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, that Duffel bag he mentioned out in
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  Speaker 1: Chattahoochee National Forest, which is in northern Georgia, might be
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  Speaker 1: one of those bags. And so the friend called authority.
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  Speaker 1: Authorities were thrilled to get this tip, and so they
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  Speaker 1: charged out to the Chattahoochee National Forest and they made
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  Speaker 1: their way out to where this dead bear was and then,
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, about one hundred yards away from this bear
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  Speaker 1: was this bag, and it was one of the bags
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  Speaker 1: they were missing, except the bag was empty because, as
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  Speaker 1: we already know, that black bear had eaten everything inside
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  Speaker 1: of this bag, and as you might have guessed, that bag,
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  Speaker 1: along with every other bag that had been cast out
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  Speaker 1: of the Cesna that night, was full of cocaine. Because
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  Speaker 1: Andrew was a drug smuggler, and on the night he
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  Speaker 1: and his co pilot leapt from the Cesna, he was
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  Speaker 1: trying to smuggle nine hundred pounds of cocaine from South
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  Speaker 1: America into the United States. That transmission that Andrew and
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  Speaker 1: the co pilot suddenly overheard on their radio as they
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  Speaker 1: were cruising along in their Cesna was the sound of
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  Speaker 1: federal agents within the US Customs and Border Protection Agency
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  Speaker 1: who had been tipped off about Andrew's big drug run,
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  Speaker 1: and so they really had sent two planes to go
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  Speaker 1: follow him and potentially intercept him. And so the authorities
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  Speaker 1: standing in the Chattahoochee National Forest looking down at this
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  Speaker 1: empty duffel bag, had no idea where the cocaine went
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  Speaker 1: that was supposed to be inside of it, But on
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  Speaker 1: a hunch, they decided to bring the body of the
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  Speaker 1: dead black bear back with them and perform an autopsy
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  Speaker 1: on it. And sure enough, during this autopsy, the medical
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  Speaker 1: examiner would open up the bear's stomach and the examiner
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  Speaker 1: would say the stomach was quote packed to the brim
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  Speaker 1: with cocaine, thus ending the mystery of how this bear died.
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  Speaker 1: It died from a massive, massive cocaine overdose. But the
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