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  Speaker 1: In nineteen ninety eight, a young boy saw something terrifying
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  Speaker 1: out of a window in his house in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night, but after telling his mom about it,
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  Speaker 1: she looked around, didn't see anything, and so told him,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, You've probably just imagined it. However, years
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  Speaker 1: later that boy and his mother would learn he had
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  Speaker 1: not just imagined it. It was very real. But before
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  Speaker 1: we get into today's stories, if you're a fan of
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. Cranbrook, which is a small
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  Speaker 1: snowy town in British Columbia, Canada, used to be a
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  Speaker 1: place no one had heard of. Then Isaiah Otieno changed
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  Speaker 1: that in two thousand and six, an eighteen year old,
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  Speaker 1: smiling young man named Isaiah Otieno stepped off of a
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  Speaker 1: plane in Cranbrook and began making his way toward the
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  Speaker 1: baggage clam As he walked, everyone in the airport stopped
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  Speaker 1: and stared up at him. Isaiah was six foot nine
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  Speaker 1: inches tall and he was from Kenya, making him easily
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  Speaker 1: one of the most unique people in all of Cranbrook. Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: who was the son of a Kenyan politician, had worked
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  Speaker 1: really hard to earn his slot at the local university
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  Speaker 1: called the College of the Rockies. His plan was to
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  Speaker 1: use that degree to get a great job so he
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  Speaker 1: could help support his family back in Nairobi. Not long
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  Speaker 1: after the first semester of Isaiah's freshman year had started,
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  Speaker 1: he was not only flourishing academically, but also socially. His
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  Speaker 1: big smile and his charm and his incredibly good manners
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  Speaker 1: had earned him many friends, as well as the nickname
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  Speaker 1: the Gentle Giant. But the person Isaiah most closely bonded
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  Speaker 1: with while he was in Cranbrook was another student named
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  Speaker 1: Isaac Hockley. Isaac, in addition to being a student at
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  Speaker 1: the College of the Rockies, was also a passionate photographer
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  Speaker 1: and actually worked part time for the local newspaper as
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  Speaker 1: a freelance photographer. Isaac and Isaiah had briefly met in
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  Speaker 1: late two thousand and six at their campus's billiard halls
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  Speaker 1: when they were both playing cool, but that interaction had
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  Speaker 1: not made them friends. What had cemented their friendship and
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  Speaker 1: made them very, very close was one night in early
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Isaiah had gotten a job as
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  Speaker 1: a bouncer at a local bar because he's six foot nine,
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  Speaker 1: and so he was the bouncer, and Isaac had come
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  Speaker 1: to that bar, not to see Isaiah, just to go
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  Speaker 1: to the bar, and so Isaiah's at the front, he's
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  Speaker 1: checking people in, and then he hears this commotion in
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  Speaker 1: the bar behind him, and he turns and he sees
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  Speaker 1: Isaac is getting attacked by this huge guy that's way
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  Speaker 1: stronger than him, who looked like he was the aggressor
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  Speaker 1: in the fight. And so, without any hesitation, Isaiah turns
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  Speaker 1: and just starts galloping into the bar. He's leaping over chairs,
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  Speaker 1: he's leaping over tables, and he jumps into the fray,
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  Speaker 1: and he thought off Isaac's attacker, and so after the
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  Speaker 1: dust settled, Isaac was so thankful for Isaiah, even though
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah kind of downplayed it and acted like it was
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  Speaker 1: no big deal. But either way, the experience totally bonded
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  Speaker 1: these two very different people, and after that they became
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  Speaker 1: totally inseparable. Over the next couple of semesters, the pair
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  Speaker 1: would often go off on long rides outside of Cranbrook
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  Speaker 1: into the mountains and the forests and they would just chat.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah would talk about what it was like to live
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  Speaker 1: in Kenya and how he was really here to try
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  Speaker 1: to be successful like his father, and Isaac would talk
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  Speaker 1: to Isaiah about his passion for photography and what it
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  Speaker 1: was like growing up in Canada around Cranbrook. On one
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  Speaker 1: very memorable drive, the pair were driving at night along
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  Speaker 1: this kind of winding road that went through a forest,
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  Speaker 1: when all of a sudden, a moose leapt onto the
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  Speaker 1: road and blocked their way, and so Isaac at the
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  Speaker 1: last second had to swerve to avoid the moose, but
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  Speaker 1: ultimately they did not get into an accident, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just a close call. So Isaac was totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: He'd kind of recovered within seconds of getting past the moose,
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  Speaker 1: but Isaiah, who was in the passenger seat was totally
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  Speaker 1: shaken up by it. And when Isaac started talking to
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah about why he was so shaken up, because after all,
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  Speaker 1: they are fine, they did not get into an accident,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah would admit that he wasn't shaken up because they
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  Speaker 1: almost got into an accident. He was shaken up because
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  Speaker 1: he saw a moose. He didn't know moose existed, and
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  Speaker 1: so seeing this enormous creature suddenly in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: the road right in front of them just had totally
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  Speaker 1: spooked him. And so after this, Isaac loved to bring
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  Speaker 1: this story up as a way of kind of making
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  Speaker 1: fun of Isaiah for his fear of moose, but it
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  Speaker 1: was totally in a loving way, and Isaiah would always
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  Speaker 1: laugh right along with him. But despite oh well everything
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  Speaker 1: was going in both Isaiah and Isaac's lives to that point,
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  Speaker 1: everything would come crashing down in two thousand and eight.
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  Speaker 1: On May thirteenth, two thousand and eight, so two years
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  Speaker 1: after Isaiah showed up in Canada, Isaac got a phone
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  Speaker 1: call from his employer, the local newspaper, who told him
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  Speaker 1: he needed to head into town to take some pictures
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  Speaker 1: of a crash that had just happened a helicopter had
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  Speaker 1: been flying over Cranbrook conducting a power line survey when
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  Speaker 1: they had lost power and crashed, and all three people,
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  Speaker 1: the pilot and the two people in back who were
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  Speaker 1: actually doing the survey, they all died on impact. Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: like everybody else who heard about this, was totally shocked,
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  Speaker 1: one because it was totally tragic and horrible, but two
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  Speaker 1: because nothing ever happened in Cranbrook, so to have something
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  Speaker 1: so big like this happened right downtown was just unheard of.
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  Speaker 1: And so Isaac hopped in his car and he began
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  Speaker 1: making his way towards the crash site, and it didn't
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  Speaker 1: take long before he saw this massive ring of people
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  Speaker 1: right at the innerset between tenth and fourteenth Street. They
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  Speaker 1: were all on the sidewalk and up on buildings, and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's just looking in towards this massive mound of jagged
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  Speaker 1: metal that was on fire, and all this black smoke
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  Speaker 1: was coming off of it, and there's ambulances nearby and
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  Speaker 1: police and the fire department was there and they're trying
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  Speaker 1: to put out the flames, but they can't do it,
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  Speaker 1: and so Isaac parks his car and he rushes over
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  Speaker 1: to this ring of people, and he works his way
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  Speaker 1: towards the front. He pulls out his camera and he
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  Speaker 1: began taking pictures, first of the wreckage and the fire,
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  Speaker 1: and then also of the police as they put tarps
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  Speaker 1: over the bodies. Little did Isaac know these pictures he
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  Speaker 1: was taking were about to take on a whole new
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  Speaker 1: significance for him. Earlier that day, just before one pm,
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah wrapped up his final class of the day, and
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  Speaker 1: after he was done, he remembered he had some letters
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  Speaker 1: in his backpack that he had been meaning to mail
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  Speaker 1: to his family back in Kenya, and so he decided,
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  Speaker 1: on his way home he would make a detour to
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  Speaker 1: the post office and he would mail those letters. And
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  Speaker 1: so he left the building where this final class was
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  Speaker 1: and he stepped out into the bright sunshine of that
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  Speaker 1: May day. He put his headphones on and then he
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  Speaker 1: began to walk. At about one oh five pm, he
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the post office and he went inside just
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  Speaker 1: long enough to put his letters in the mail slot,
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  Speaker 1: and then he headed back outside. One minute later, at
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  Speaker 1: one oh six pm, as he was crossing Tenth Street,
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  Speaker 1: the helicopter above lost power and crashed directly on top
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  Speaker 1: of Isaiah. Within seconds, he and the three people on
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  Speaker 1: board the helicopter would all be dead. It's believed because
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah was listening to music on his headphones. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: even hear the helicopter as it was crashing down. He
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  Speaker 1: was just walking and then he was dead. It was
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  Speaker 1: a total freak accident. It wasn't until later that day
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  Speaker 1: that Isaac would realize the pictures he had taken of
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  Speaker 1: this scene included pictures of his friend. Before we get
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  Speaker 1: On a warm summer night in nineteen ninety eight, a
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  Speaker 1: seven year old boy named Tyler Florian fell asleep watching
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  Speaker 1: TV on his living room couch. Tyler lived with his
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  Speaker 1: parents as well as his older brother, will who was
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  Speaker 1: ten years old, in a modest, two story home in
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  Speaker 1: a rural neighborhood in West Virginia. That night, Tyler's father,
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  Speaker 1: who normally tucked the boys in at night, was out
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  Speaker 1: for work, and so after Tyler fell asleep, it was
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  Speaker 1: his mother who gently woke him up and encouraged him
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  Speaker 1: to head upstairs to his room. And so Tyler he
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  Speaker 1: gets off the couch and he's groggy, and he makes
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  Speaker 1: his way over to the stairs. He climbs up the stairs,
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  Speaker 1: and he turns right and heads down the hallway to
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  Speaker 1: his room. He goes into his bedroom, he climbs into
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  Speaker 1: his bed, and then he falls asleep. In order to
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  Speaker 1: understand what happens next, you need to have a good
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  Speaker 1: understanding of the layout of the second floor hallway. That
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  Speaker 1: hallway stretched from the front of the house all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the back of the house, and at either
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  Speaker 1: end of this hallway were doors that led outside of
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  Speaker 1: the house, and these doors had big windows on them
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  Speaker 1: the front of the house. That door, if you walked
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  Speaker 1: out it, you'd be walking out onto a balcony that
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  Speaker 1: overlooked the front yard of the property. But if you
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  Speaker 1: walked out the back door of this second floor hallway,
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  Speaker 1: you would not be walking onto a balcony, you would
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  Speaker 1: not even be on the second floor. You'd be basically
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  Speaker 1: stepping into the backyard of the house. And the reason
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  Speaker 1: for this is because the house was built into a hill,
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  Speaker 1: and so the back half of the house is literally underground.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the hill, and so there is no door
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  Speaker 1: on the lower half of the house because there's just
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  Speaker 1: earth behind the door. So it's that second floor doorway
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the hall that serves as kind
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  Speaker 1: of like the exit to the backyard of the house.
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  Speaker 1: So with that in mind, Tyler he gets upstairs. He
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  Speaker 1: goes to his bedroom, which is towards the front half
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  Speaker 1: of this hallway, and he falls asleep. And then only
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  Speaker 1: about an hour after falling asleep, he wakes up to
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  Speaker 1: the sound of someone using the bathroom. Tyler's bedroom was
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  Speaker 1: positioned right across the hall from the bathroom, and his
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  Speaker 1: door was open, and so Tyler's laying on his bed,
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  Speaker 1: he opens his eyes and he's looking through his open
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  Speaker 1: door at the bathroom and the bathroom. The door is shut,
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  Speaker 1: but he can see there's light coming out from underneath
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the door, so he knows someone's in there.
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  Speaker 1: And so Tyler's just laying there watching whoever is in there.
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  Speaker 1: He's assuming it's his brother, who has a habit of
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  Speaker 1: going to the bathroom in the middle of the night,
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  Speaker 1: and so he's just kind of watching. And then at
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  Speaker 1: some point he hears the flick of the light as
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  Speaker 1: it's turned off, and he sees the light disappear from
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  Speaker 1: inside of the bathroom. The door swings open, and sure enough,
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  Speaker 1: it's his brother, who steps back into the hallway. His
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  Speaker 1: brother looks into Tyler's room, but does an attempt to
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  Speaker 1: interact with Tyler. Instead, Will just turns and walks back
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway towards his bedroom. And so as Tyler
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  Speaker 1: is listening to the sound of his brother's footsteps fade
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  Speaker 1: down the hallway, he closes his eyes again and prepares
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  Speaker 1: to go back to sleep. But as he's laying there
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  Speaker 1: with his eyes closed, he can tell that his brother
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  Speaker 1: has stopped short of his bedroom and has turned around
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  Speaker 1: and is now walking back up the hallway towards the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and towards Tyler's room, and so Tyler opens his
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  Speaker 1: eyes again because he knows his brother is about to
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  Speaker 1: be right in front of his bedroom, and he's thinking, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe he forgot something in the bathroom, and
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  Speaker 1: so Tyler decides to just watch to see what his
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  Speaker 1: brother does, and so sure enough, Will walks all the
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  Speaker 1: way up until he's standing right in front of Tyler's
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  Speaker 1: open door. But instead of going into the bathroom, Will
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  Speaker 1: walks into Tyler's room and right away Tyler sits up
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  Speaker 1: and says, you know, hey, what are you doing? What's
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  Speaker 1: going on? And his brother he pauses for a second
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  Speaker 1: and he begins to say something that sounds like he
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  Speaker 1: saw something out there, but you know, he's hesitant. He
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  Speaker 1: doesn't really know how he wants to frame the thing
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  Speaker 1: he wants to say, and so Tyler's like, come on,
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  Speaker 1: what are you doing. It's the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 1: What's going on? And finally Will just blurts out, I
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  Speaker 1: keep seeing a man wearing stripes at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. And so Tyler he hears this, and he
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  Speaker 1: can't compute what he's being told, and so he just says,
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  Speaker 1: what what are you talking about? Will? What did you
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  Speaker 1: see in the hallway, and Will would say again, I
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  Speaker 1: keep seeing a man wearing stripes at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the hallway. I've seen him a couple times in the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of days. I go to the bathroom, and
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  Speaker 1: then when I start walking back, I see him outside
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  Speaker 1: the back door, in our backyard. And so Tyler is
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  Speaker 1: so scared because his brother does not sound like he's
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  Speaker 1: making a joke. His brother sounds like he's telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And just the fact that his brother can't quite find
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  Speaker 1: the words to describe what he saw made it seem
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  Speaker 1: even more real. And so Tyler he gets out of
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  Speaker 1: bed and he says, Will, we got to go tell mom.
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  Speaker 1: But that required going into the hallway and going down
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  Speaker 1: the hall towards where apparently this man in stripes was
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  Speaker 1: to get to their mother's bead bedroom. And so Will,
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  Speaker 1: who initially was not that scared of this man in
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  Speaker 1: stripes he had seen, was now starting to get pretty
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  Speaker 1: panicked in seeing Tyler's reaction to this, And so Will
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  Speaker 1: tells Tyler, you know, stay right there, stay in the room,
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  Speaker 1: and so Will he kind of peeks back into the
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  Speaker 1: hallway and he looks all the way down and there
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  Speaker 1: is no man in stripes anymore. There's no one in
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  Speaker 1: the hall, and so he tells Tyler, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: coast is clear, and the two of them run down
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  Speaker 1: the hallway all the way right in front of that
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  Speaker 1: door that leads into the back of the property where
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  Speaker 1: the man and stripes was, and they turn left and
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  Speaker 1: they go into their parents' bedroom, where just their mother
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  Speaker 1: was because their father was out of town, and so
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  Speaker 1: they charge in there. They wake their mom up, and
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  Speaker 1: they're talking over each other trying to communicate to their
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  Speaker 1: mom that there was a ghost, that there was an intruder,
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  Speaker 1: that there was something bad happening around their house. And
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  Speaker 1: so finally their mom just tells them to be quiet,
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  Speaker 1: and she says, okay, boys, sit on the bed. I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna go have a look around the house. And so
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  Speaker 1: the two boys do as they're told. They sit on
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  Speaker 1: the bed, and their mom leaves the bedroom. She goes
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  Speaker 1: into the hallway and she looks immediately too her left,
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  Speaker 1: where the man in stripes supposedly was, and she doesn't
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  Speaker 1: see anything. She just looks out into their backyard. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing there. She looks down the other direction out the
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  Speaker 1: front of the house, doesn't see anything. She walks all
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  Speaker 1: around the house, she goes outside, she looks everywhere, but
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  Speaker 1: she doesn't see anyone or anything, and so eventually she
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  Speaker 1: comes back inside the house. She goes up to the
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  Speaker 1: second floor. She goes back to her bedroom, and she
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  Speaker 1: tells her boys, look, you probably just spooked yourselves. There
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  Speaker 1: is no man in stripes. You're totally safe. You're totally fine.
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  Speaker 1: Just go back to bed. You probably just imagined whatever
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  Speaker 1: you saw. And so Will, who was the one who
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  Speaker 1: saw the man in stripes, was very quick to accept
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  Speaker 1: his mother's answer. It actually seemed like it was a
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  Speaker 1: relief to have somebody tell him that what you had
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  Speaker 1: seen wasn't real, and so he very happily went back
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  Speaker 1: to his bed and he fell asleep. But Tyler, who
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  Speaker 1: had not seen the man in stripes but had a
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  Speaker 1: very intense reaction to hearing his brother describe it, could
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  Speaker 1: not accept his mother's answer. It just totally freaked him
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  Speaker 1: out because his brother was always joking around about stuff,
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  Speaker 1: but this did not feel like a joke. This felt very,
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  Speaker 1: very real. But over the course of the next couple
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  Speaker 1: of days, weeks, months, years, Will never claimed to see
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  Speaker 1: the man in stripes again, and so pretty quickly Tyler
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  Speaker 1: forgot about it. Fast forward eleven years to two thousand
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: and nine. So Tyler is now eighteen years old, and
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: he and his mom were out in the car running
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: some errants, and as they're driving around, they were just
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: chatting about all sorts of different things, and at some
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: point they began talking about one of their beloved family pets,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: a dog named Max, that they had when Tyler was
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: really young. And so as they're kind of swapping stories
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: about all the goofy things that this dog did, Tyler's
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: mom suddenly says, Hey, Tyler, do you remember the time
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: that I opened the front door to let the cops
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: into the house and Max came bounding into the house
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: and he went right into the kitchen and he ripped
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: open all the food. And Tyler's looking at his mom, like, wait,
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: when did the cops come to our house? When did
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: you open the door to let the cops come into
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: our house? And as soon as Tyler said this to
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: his mom, his mom looked at him as if she
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: had just given away something she hadn't meant to, And
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: then she kind of relaxed and said, you know what,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: I never got around to telling you now that I'm
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: thinking about it, you and your brother were asleep and
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: you didn't even know this happened. And then afterward, me
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: and your father decided not to tell you guys, because
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: we didn't want to scare you. Back when you were
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: about seven years old and Will was about ten years old,
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: your dad was away at work, and we were all
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: asleep one night when suddenly I wake up to the
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: sound of someone or something moving around outside of our house.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: And so I sit up in bed, and I go
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: into the hallway and I look left, and I look
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: out that door into our backyard, and I see standing
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: up against the glass, this man with his hands pressed
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: to the window, looking into the house. And so Tyler's
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: mom would tell him how she totally freaked out. She
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: flipped on the lights and it scared this guy who
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: ran off, and then she called the police, and then
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: the police showed up, and that's when their dog, Max
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: came bounding inside and shredded the bag of food, and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: the police they searched the property, but apparently they never
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: found the sky. Tyler's mom would go on to tell
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: him that the police warned her that her description of
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: this man that was standing at their back door matched
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the description of a man who was wanted for murder
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: who was on the loose in the area. Tyler was dumbfounded.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: He didn't remember this because obviously he had been asleep,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: because this is something he would have remembered, and so
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: he had so many questions about this whole situation. But
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: the first question he asked his mom was, well, what
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: did he look like? And his mom said, well, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: he was tall, he had dark hair, he had blue
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: jeans on, and oh, you know what, he had a
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: striped shirt on. It would turn out for a couple
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: of days in the summer of nineteen ninety eight, this
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: suspected murderer, who was on the run from police, had
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: apparently been hiding out on Tyler's family's property, and in
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: the middle of the night, for whatever reason, this suspected
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: murderer would walk over to the back door of the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: second floor hallway and he would put his up to
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the glass and he would stare into their home. This
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: was the man in stripes that Will claimed to have seen.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: He was real. Tyler, after making this connection, would follow
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: up with his family members and he would do some
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: digging of his own, but he was never able to
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: figure out who the man in stripes was or what
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: happened to him. In twenty twelve, a twenty two year
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: old woman named Simone was living in a small wine
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: making village called rudussam Amrhine, which is located in southwestern Germany.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: This village is strikingly beautiful. It's full of quaint European
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: homes and there's lots of rolling green hills with vineyards
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: as far as the eye can see, and the village
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: sits right on the banks of the Rhine River. Simone
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: had grown up in this picturesque village and she had
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: loved it. But this was going to be her last
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: summer before she left and headed off to New York
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: City to start the next chapter of her life. And
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: while she was excited about that, she was also kind
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: of sad because this village and everybody inside of it
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: were the only things she had ever known, and so
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the idea of leaving them behind just seemed very strange
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: to her. But instead of focusing on the kind of
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: growing anxiety around her imminent departure from Germany, she focused
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: on what she would be doing that summer while she
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: was still in Germany. Some of Simone's fondest memories of
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: her childhood were of her time spent at summer camp.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And this summer camp was located in this forest that
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: was not far from her village, and every summer in July, Simone,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: along with about two hundred other kids from her village
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and from neighboring villages, would converge on the campgrounds in
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the forest for two weeks of playing games and going
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: on scavenger hunts and putting on stage plays and just
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: generally having a really good time. But when Simone became
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: a teenager and was too old to be a camp attendee,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: she decided she would volunteer and be a camp counselor.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: And she found it was awesome. She immediately connected with
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: the other camp counselors and she felt all grown up
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: having a real job, and she loved goofing around with
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: all the kids. And so every summer since that first
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: time volunteering, Simone had gone back and volunteered again, and
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: this summer was no different. So in mid July of
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: that year, Simone packed up her things and she headed
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: off to the forest. The way this camp worked was
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: the two hundred plus kids that were attending the camp.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: They would get dropped off in the mornings each day
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: by their parents and they'd play and run around all day,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: and then in the late afternoon their parents would come
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: back and pick them up, so none of the kids
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: were sleeping over at the camp during these two weeks. However,
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the thirty plus counselors, they would just stay at the
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: camp for the full two weeks. They would just sleep
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: in tents out in the forest. Technically, the reason they
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: did this was to make sure they had enough time
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: in the morning to prep the campgrounds for the kids,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and then also in the evenings to have enough time
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: to clean up and kind of have it ready for
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: the next day. But in reality, Simone and the other
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: counselors all knew that the camping out in the forest
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: was the best part of the volunteer experience. After all
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the kids went home for the night, all of the
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: counselors would finish up all of their duties and then
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: rush off into the forest where their tents were and
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: where there was a fire pit, and they would have
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: some beers and wine. Because the legal drinking age in
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Germany is actually sixteen, so all these counselors are having
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a couple of drinks and then before long they'd be
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: laughing and telling stories and just generally having a great time.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: So that July in twenty twelve, Simone and the other
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: counselors arrived at the campgrounds a day early, and they
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: caught up with each other and they prepared the campground,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: and then the next morning all the kids showed up
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and everything went off without a hitch. And then that afternoon,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: after all the kids had been picked up by their parents,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Simone and the other counselors rushed to finish up all
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: their duties and then headed off into the woods to
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: enjoy their first night hanging out together. After a couple
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: of beers had been passed around the campfire, everybody was
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: in good spirits and laughing and telling stories. But pretty
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: quickly people started to face and get tired, because you know,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: it was their first day back at camp and it
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: had been a long, tiring day, and so people very
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: gradually began retiring to their tents to go to bed,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: and eventually Simone too had crawled into her tent and
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: gotten onto her cot to try to sleep herself, but
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: she found that night it was so hot she couldn't
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: be in her tent. It was stifling inside of there,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: and so she decides she's just going to sleep out
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in the open where it's a little bit cooler. And
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so she picks up her fold up coot and she
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: brings it out into the open, and she sees there
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: are several other counselors who have done the same thing,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and so she puts her cot down next to one
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: of her good friends who's already asleep in her cot,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: and then Simone climbs into her cot. She gets under
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: her covers and she tries to fall asleep, but for
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the next hour, Simone just tosses and turns. She can't
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: get comfortable, and by that time everybody else has completely
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: passed out, so it's just her. You know, she's counting
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: down the time until she has to get up again
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to start the next day, and so she's getting stressed
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: about that. But eventually she would fall asleep. However, she
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: would immediately be thrust into one of the most visceral
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: and intense nightmares she had ever had in her entire life.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: In her dream, she opens her eyes and she looks
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: out in front of her, and it's this desert city
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: and there are hundreds of people all in front of her,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: just standing there looking up at her. And then she
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: notices on her left and on her right are these
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: two men, these big, huge men that are both working
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: on something behind her. She doesn't really know what it is,
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: but they're obviously busy doing something, and she kind of
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: glances up at one of them, and she notices he's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: holding something that looks like a wreath, like a holiday
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: wreath you would hang on your door. And so Simone
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: looks away from the guy with the wreath and just
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: looks back out at this huge sea of people, which
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: is totally bizarre because no one's moving, no one's making
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: any sound, They're just staring at her. And then she
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: feels this shooting pain in the top of her head.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: The man who was standing on her right was not
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: holding a holiday wreath. He was holding a crown of thorns.
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: And now he, along with the guy on the other
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: side of her, we're working together to press this crown
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: of thorns into her head. And so Simone is feeling
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: the thorns being pressed deeper and deeper into her scalp,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: and she tries to fight them off, but she realizes
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: she can't move. She can't even turn her head to
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: look at them, she can only see them out of
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: her periphery vision. And then she tries to scream out
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: for help to someone in the crowd to come help her,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: but when she opens her mouth, no sound comes out,
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: and so as she's sitting there, all she can do
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: is stare straight out ahead of her as the pressure
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: of these thorns are driven deeper and deeper into her skin.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: And then at some point blood begins dripping down in
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: front of her eyes, and around that point the pain
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: became so blinding, so awful that it woke her up.
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: And as soon as she woke up, she shot up
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: and she reached for her head to make sure there
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: was no crown of thorns on her And as she's
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: doing that, she's thinking, Okay, phew, it was just a dream.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: That was just a horrible dream. I'm in this forest.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I'm safe, And as she's kind of patting
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: on her head, she's realizing her head is wet, and
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: as she's touching her head, she's realizing it hurts. There's
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: a stinging pain in her head, and then she realizes
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: it's not just a stinging pain, it's a throbbing, intense
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: pain all over her head. And so as she's kind
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: of having this realization that her dream is now kind
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: of segued into her real life, she looks out ahead
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: of her and she sees off in the distance in
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the tree line, something is running through the woods. She
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: can't tell who or what it is, but she makes
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: a mental note that there is something someone running away
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: from them. But this pain in her head has gotten
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: so intense that she can't focus on anything else. She
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: can only focus on the pain. And as she's thinking
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: about how much her head hurts, she screams in pain.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: And the girl who was laying next to her that
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: had been asleep, she wakes up to the sound of
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: the scream, but it's totally pitch black. She has no
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: idea what's going on with Simone, and so this girl
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: she sits up and she's trying to get Simone to
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: tell her what's going on, but Simone has no idea.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: She's totally frantic. She can't really make sense of what's happening.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: And so this friend she reaches down and she picks
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: up a flashlight. She turns it on and she aims
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: the light at Simone. Illuminating her head, and when this
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: friend sees Simone's head, she starts to scream. Seconds later,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: the rest of the counselors that have been sleeping out
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: were awake and they were rushing Simone, who was now
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: shaking and vomiting, over to one of the staff bands,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: and then fifteen minutes later they had driven her to
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: the emergency room. It would turn out, after Simone had
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: finally fallen asleep and she began having that really intense
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: dream about a crown of thorns being dug into her scalp. Well,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in reality, something was digging into her scalp, and it
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: was kind of manifesting itself in her dream, and what
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: was digging into her scalp was the jaws of a fox.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: This fox had snuck into the campsite and walked right
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: up behind Simone and just started eating her head. And amazingly,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: it did not wake Simone up right away, and so
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: this fox got twin or so serious bite out of
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Simone's head before she shot up and scared it away.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: And so almost certainly what Simone saw running away from
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: her in that quick moment was the fox. Doctors were
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: able to save Simone and stitch her head back together,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: and they were even able to hide all of the
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: scars in her hairlines you can't even see them. But
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: despite her being physically okay today, psychologically this was a
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: very traumatizing event. Not only does she refuse now to
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: go into any forest, whether it's day or night, but
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: she also periodically still gets phantom pains in her scalp
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: that feels like the fox is biting her head all
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: over again. So that's going to do it. Guys. If
• 28:42
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• 28:44
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• 28:52
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