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Her NIGHTMARE broke reality... · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: into today's story. One evening in September of eighteen eighty five,
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Speaker 1: a young woman named Mary stepped out of the backseat
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Speaker 1: of a carriage onto a road in rural England. She
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Speaker 1: had traveled one hundred miles from London to the countryside
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Speaker 1: because her husband's aunt had invited her to come visit.
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Speaker 1: Standing on the dirt road, Mary looked up at the
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Speaker 1: big country house. Then she grabbed her suitcase and walked
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Speaker 1: up to the front door and knocked.
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Speaker 2: Then a moment later, the aunt's maid opened the door.
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Speaker 1: She greeted Mary and took her suitcase and brought the
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Speaker 1: suitcase to the guest room while Mary had it straight
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Speaker 1: down the hallway to her aunt's bedroom. When she got there,
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Speaker 1: Mary gently knocked on the door and then opened it up,
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Speaker 1: and when she looked inside, she saw the aunt lying
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Speaker 1: in bed, and you know, the aunt looked up and
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Speaker 1: saw Mary and she smiled. But she was very old
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Speaker 1: and very frail, you know, not doing too well physically,
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Speaker 1: and now that's part of the reason Mary was here
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Speaker 1: to just kind of see her while she still could.
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Speaker 1: But the aunt looked up and saw Mary and recognized her,
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Speaker 1: and so she smiled, and Mary came in and sat
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Speaker 1: down next to her, and for a couple of minutes
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Speaker 1: the two women just had some small talk. You know,
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Speaker 1: Mary talked about her journey from London to you know,
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Speaker 1: the countryside where she was now, and you know, the
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Speaker 1: aunt talked about what she was up to. It was
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Speaker 1: all just kind of, you know, pleasantries. But at some
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Speaker 1: point the aunt kind of stopped and looked up at Mary,
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Speaker 1: and she had this obvious look of pity on her face, and.
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Speaker 2: Mary immediately picked up on it.
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Speaker 1: And she's kind of looking back at the aunt, wondering
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Speaker 1: what's going on here, and then the aunt just says
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Speaker 1: to Mary, really, how are you holding up? And immediately Mary,
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Speaker 1: when she heard this, she felt this not in her
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Speaker 1: throat and she had to fight back tears. I mean,
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Speaker 1: she knew exactly what the aunt was talking about. So
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Speaker 1: even though Mary was a young woman, she was already
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Speaker 1: a widow. Her husband had died in an accident about
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Speaker 1: two years earlier, and it had sent Mary into the
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Speaker 1: spiraling deep depression. I mean, she was still completely grieving.
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Speaker 2: The loss of her husband. He had been the love
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Speaker 2: of her life.
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Speaker 1: And you know, her extended family and her husband's extended
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Speaker 1: family were all well aware of how badly Mary had
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Speaker 1: been doing, and so they had been extending her invitations
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Speaker 1: constantly to come visit and basically just not be alone.
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Speaker 1: I mean that was the reason really why her husband's
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Speaker 1: aunt had invited her here, is because she knew Mary
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Speaker 1: likely wasn't doing well. Now, to Mary, you know, this
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Speaker 1: was nice in a way. I mean, she felt very
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Speaker 1: comforted by the family members and it did seem like
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Speaker 1: people genuinely cared about her. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: she started to get the impression from basically everybody in
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Speaker 1: her and her husband's family that they kind of expected
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Speaker 1: her to, you know, grieve this loss, but ultimately move on,
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Speaker 1: like find somebody else basically you're young, like get remarried,
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Speaker 1: you know, start a new life. But to Mary, she
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Speaker 1: just wanted to be like, no, I'm never going to
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Speaker 1: find anyone like my husband. He was the love of
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Speaker 1: my life and no one will ever match him ever,
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Speaker 1: Like I'm done, I probably will never get married again
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Speaker 1: like he was it for me. And so at that moment,
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Speaker 1: Mary really just wanted to end this conversation with her
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Speaker 1: husband's aunt, like she didn't want to get into how
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Speaker 1: she was feeling about her husband, because it was bad.
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Speaker 1: She felt bad, but instead of saying that to her
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Speaker 1: husband's aunt, she just said, you know what, I'm okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm just totally exhausted from travel and I'm gonna go
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Speaker 1: to bed. The aunt nodded and told Mary that, you know,
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Speaker 1: we'll have plenty of time to visit.
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Speaker 2: Tomorrow, so go get some sleep. And so the two
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Speaker 2: women hugged, and then Mary got up. She left the bedroom,
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Speaker 2: headed to the guest room.
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Speaker 1: She found her suitcase, got on some pajamas, and then
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Speaker 1: crawled into bed, But a few hours later, in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night, Mary suddenly bolted up right in
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Speaker 1: her bed. She was sweating, she was shaking, she was
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Speaker 1: totally disoriented. It took her a few minutes to even
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Speaker 1: remember where she was. But then finally when she did
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Speaker 1: and she realized she was safe, she realized she had
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Speaker 1: just had this awful, visceral nightmare that she really couldn't
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Speaker 1: even make sense of. In this nightmare, she was looking
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Speaker 1: out at this huge open field. It's nighttime and there's
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Speaker 1: nothing but this field. But oft in the distance there
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Speaker 1: was this broken down, small shed. It was just sitting there, conspicuously,
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Speaker 1: right in the middle of this field. And even though
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Speaker 1: Mary was terrified of the shed, she felt this overwhelming
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Speaker 1: urge to go.
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Speaker 2: To the shed and investigate.
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Speaker 1: It's like with every step as she walked through this field,
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Speaker 1: closer and closer to the shed, her fear was rising.
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Speaker 1: And then finally, when she got close to the shed,
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Speaker 1: she began to hear what sounded like somebody moaning inside
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Speaker 1: of the structure. And so now she's really scared, but
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Speaker 1: she keeps walking towards the shed, and then she's right outside.
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Speaker 1: She can't see into the shed but she can hear
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Speaker 1: the moaning, and she sees her hand just come down
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Speaker 1: and fling the door open, almost like she didn't want to,
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Speaker 1: but her body's acting on autopilot. And then she looks
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Speaker 1: into the shed and there's this figure tucked into the corner,
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Speaker 1: kind of in the shadows, and it's the thing making
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Speaker 1: these moaning sounds.
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Speaker 2: And it turns and Mary.
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Speaker 1: Sees it's this woman, this emaciated, destroyed looking woman. But
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Speaker 1: her face is the same face as Mary's dead husband,
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Speaker 1: and as.
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Speaker 2: Soon as she saw that, it jolted her awake.
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Speaker 1: And so that's where she was sitting in her bedroom
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Speaker 1: trying to make sense of what she had just seen.
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Speaker 1: And so after fifteen or twenty minutes of Mary trying
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Speaker 1: and failing to fall back asleep because of this horrible
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Speaker 1: night Maror, Mary finally says, you know what, I'm just
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Speaker 1: going to go outside, clear my head, go for a walk.
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Speaker 1: I know it's the middle of the night, whatever, you know.
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Speaker 1: I'll bring some brandy along and sip that to calm
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Speaker 1: my nerves and just kind of walk around until I'm calm,
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Speaker 1: and then.
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Speaker 2: I'll go back to sleep.
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Speaker 1: So she hopped out a bed, she grabbed her flask
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Speaker 1: minutes later, Mary was walking up a hill with the
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Speaker 1: as she went and was already beginning to calm down. Now,
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Speaker 1: Mary was used to living in the city in London,
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Speaker 1: and so being out here in the countryside was so different.
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Speaker 1: It was so beautiful and peaceful and spaced out that
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Speaker 1: she had kind of just begun walking and not stopped.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she originally thought she would just stay on
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Speaker 1: the ant's property, but already she was well beyond the
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Speaker 1: property lines and was basically just out exploring in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the night, and she was having a nice time.
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Speaker 1: And so up the hill Mary goes. Now, remember Mary
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Speaker 1: has never been to this area. This is basically an
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Speaker 1: all new place. She has no idea what's over here,
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Speaker 1: and she goes up this hill. She crests the top
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Speaker 1: and she gets a look at what's up there for
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Speaker 1: the first time.
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Speaker 2: And when she sees what's up there, she freezes.
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Speaker 1: She's looking out at this huge field basically in all directions,
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Speaker 1: and in the center of this field, maybe a couple
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Speaker 1: hundred yards away, is a single small structure, a broken
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Speaker 1: down wooden shed that looks nearly identical to the shed.
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Speaker 2: She had just seen in her nightmare.
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Speaker 1: And as soon as she saw that, she's terrified because
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Speaker 1: she knows it's the same one, or it's eerily similar,
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Speaker 1: but worse than that. When she saw it, despite her
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Speaker 1: own fears and trepidations about being up here, she felt
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Speaker 1: herself moving towards the shed. It was like her body
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Speaker 1: went into autopilot, the same way it did in her dream.
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Speaker 1: It was like she had to go to the shed,
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Speaker 1: even though everything inside of her logically is saying don't go.
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Speaker 2: But into the field she goes.
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Speaker 1: She deviates off the path and just starts walking towards
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Speaker 1: the shed.
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Speaker 2: Her heart is.
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Speaker 1: Beating like mad, and as she's getting closer and closer,
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Speaker 1: she even begins to hear moaning sounds coming from the shed.
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Speaker 1: It's like she's living out the nightmare in real life.
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Speaker 1: She can't make sense of it. She wants to go
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Speaker 1: back either way, but she can't stop herself. She's just
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Speaker 1: going towards the shed. And then finally she reaches the shed,
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Speaker 1: and now for sure she can hear moaning coming from
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Speaker 1: in this building, and she sees her hand reached down
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Speaker 1: and she flings open the shed and she looks in
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Speaker 1: and sure enough, there is this dark figure tucked in
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Speaker 1: the corner, clearly moaning like this is her nightmare in
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Speaker 1: real life. But when the person inside the shed turned
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Speaker 1: to look at Mary, it was a woman, but they
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Speaker 1: didn't have her dead husband's face. Instead, it was a
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Speaker 1: woman who practically looked like she was dead or close
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Speaker 1: to death. She obviously needed help. Now at this point,
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Speaker 1: Mary was kind of relieved. I mean, this whole situation
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Speaker 1: is terrifying, but she was expecting to, you know, somehow
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Speaker 1: see her dead husband's face on this person in the shed,
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Speaker 1: and so when it wasn't, and it was just like
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Speaker 1: a normal person, albeit in a very strange set of circumstances,
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Speaker 1: it was a relief. But now Mary didn't know what
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Speaker 1: to do. It's like she's standing there looking at this
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Speaker 1: woman having no idea what to do. She doesn't understand
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Speaker 1: how she could have dreamed this and now basically lived
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Speaker 1: it too.
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Speaker 2: Like nothing's adding up.
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Speaker 1: But again, it was like her body continued to operate
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Speaker 1: in this autopilot mode. She suddenly had this really intense
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Speaker 1: desire to go into the shed and help this woman.
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Speaker 2: She didn't know who she was.
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Speaker 1: This is a total stranger in the middle of a
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Speaker 1: field in a shed who's moaning and looks terrible.
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Speaker 2: She has no idea what's going on?
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Speaker 1: But then she goes and she sits down next to
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Speaker 1: this woman who's now kind of eyeing Mary like what
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Speaker 1: are you doing in here with me? And Mary says
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Speaker 1: to her like, hey, what's going on? How'd you get here?
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Speaker 2: What's wrong? Like what's happening?
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Speaker 1: But the woman, it was clear she wanted to respond
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Speaker 1: to Mary and you know, tell her what was going on,
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Speaker 1: but you know.
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Speaker 2: She was too weak.
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Speaker 1: It was like she really was on death's store here
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Speaker 1: and Mary could clearly see that, like she didn't need
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Speaker 1: to be told this woman is in a very bad
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Speaker 1: way here. Now Mary knew what needed to happen is
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Speaker 1: this woman needs to get to a hospital. But they
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Speaker 1: were nowhere near a hospital and this woman clearly can't
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Speaker 1: get up and walk, and Mary's thinking, I'm not strong
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Speaker 1: enough to carry this woman to the hospital, Like what
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Speaker 1: am I gonna do? And you know, Mary's thinking maybe
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Speaker 1: if I just run and get help and they can
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Speaker 1: come back here. But she's looking at this woman thinking
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Speaker 1: I don't know if she'll survive. You know, she's probably
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Speaker 1: gonna die soon, Like this is gonna happen now, And
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Speaker 1: so Mary again sort of in this weird autopilot mode decides,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna stay right here with this woman.
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Speaker 1: She can't even talk, she can't tell me what's going on,
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Speaker 1: but I am gonna be here with her. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: be present with her, and if she dies, I'll be
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Speaker 1: here to support her. And so Mary just made herself comfortable.
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Speaker 1: She took her jacket off, she put it over this woman,
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Speaker 1: and then she began letting this woman sip from her
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Speaker 1: brandy flask to you know, maybe kind of ease the pain.
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Speaker 1: And all night the two women just kind of sat
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Speaker 1: there and laid together. When the sun finally rose the
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Speaker 1: next morning, Mary looked over at the woman and so
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Speaker 1: she was still alive, and in fact, if anything, she
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Speaker 1: seemed like her condition had maybe improved slightly. She seemed
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Speaker 1: maybe a little bit more comfortable. You know, maybe that
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Speaker 1: was from all the brandy, who knows, but the woman
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Speaker 1: seemed like she'd stabilized a little bit. Still couldn't talk
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Speaker 1: or really tell Mary anything, but she seemed to be
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Speaker 1: doing a little bit better. And so Mary's thinking, okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, the sun's up now, now I can run
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Speaker 1: out get help and get this woman the care that
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Speaker 1: she needs. But before Mary could even do that. She
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Speaker 1: began hearing a stomping sound somewhere outside of the shed,
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Speaker 1: and she realized it was a horse approaching, and so
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Speaker 1: Mary she bolts out of the shed and she looks
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Speaker 1: over towards the road and there's a horse pulling a
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Speaker 1: covered wagon and going right by. And Mary screams and
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Speaker 1: yells and says she needs help. And a man pops
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Speaker 1: his head out of the wagon and says, what's going on?
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Speaker 1: And Mary runs over to him and explains this weird situation,
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Speaker 1: how there's this strange woman over here and she's clearly dying.
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Speaker 2: She needs our help.
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Speaker 1: And the man agreed to help, and so he went
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Speaker 1: with Mary to the shed. He picked the woman up,
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Speaker 1: he put her inside of his wagon, and then the
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Speaker 1: three of them together in this wagon, drove.
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Speaker 2: To Mary's husband's aunt's house.
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Speaker 1: When they got there, the man carried the strange woman
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Speaker 1: inside of the aunt's house, and then Mary told the
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Speaker 1: aunt's maid to go call for the town doctor, and
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Speaker 1: so she said she would. And so at this point
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Speaker 1: Mary was actually completely relieved. I mean, this was kind
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Speaker 1: of a wild, very unexpected night. I mean, she doesn't
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Speaker 1: even know who this woman is, but she's definitely happy
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Speaker 1: that she's getting some level of care here, but Mary
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Speaker 1: sort of felt like her role in.
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Speaker 2: This was kind of diminished.
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Speaker 1: Now, you know, she's she's gotten the woman here, and
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Speaker 1: she's feeling so tired and weak from being up all night,
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Speaker 1: and so Mary decided she would just take a nap.
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Speaker 1: I mean, she had been up all night with this woman.
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Speaker 1: She was exhausted, So into her bedroom she went. She
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Speaker 1: climbed into bed. But as she's laying there, she realized
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Speaker 1: she wasn't just tired. She actually felt kind of sick,
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Speaker 1: like ill. And over the next few hours, as she
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Speaker 1: kind of tossed and turned in her bed, not really
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Speaker 1: able to sleep, she would develop this horrible fever and
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Speaker 1: this feat would just get worse and worse and worse,
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Speaker 1: and Mary would become bedridden, dealing with this mystery illness
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Speaker 1: for weeks, just drifting in and out of consciousness the
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Speaker 1: whole time.
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Speaker 2: It was October by the time Mary's fever.
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Speaker 1: Finally broke, and on the day that it did, when
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Speaker 1: Mary opened her eyes in this bed, you know, she
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Speaker 1: was clear headed for the first time.
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Speaker 2: I mean, really, it had been a very rough.
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Speaker 1: Stretch of a few weeks, and so She's looking around
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Speaker 1: the room, kind of taking stock of her environment, and
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Speaker 1: she sees there's this strange person sitting in a chair
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Speaker 1: in the corner, and her immediate reaction is, Oh, this
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Speaker 1: must be like a nurse or a doctor or somebody
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Speaker 1: here that's kind of overseeing me.
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Speaker 2: Mary was aware she had been very sick for several weeks,
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Speaker 2: and there were people in and out of the room.
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Speaker 1: But she looked back at this person and realized she
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Speaker 1: actually knew who it was. It was the woman she
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Speaker 1: had rescued from the shed on the night she got sick.
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Speaker 1: It was that woman, but now she wasn't sickly and
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Speaker 1: you know, dying. The woman looked completely healthy and happy,
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Speaker 1: and she was smiling ears to hear at Mary like
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Speaker 1: this didn't make any sense, like what's going on here?
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Speaker 1: And also Mary just couldn't help but think like, wait
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Speaker 1: a minute, why is this woman still here? It has
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Speaker 1: been weeks since I rescued her from the shed? Why
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Speaker 1: is she still here? Like nothing's adding up. But before
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Speaker 1: Mary could ask any questions, this woman, who clearly was
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Speaker 1: super excited to see that Mary was now fully awake
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Speaker 1: and attentive. This woman just starts talking a mile a minute,
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Speaker 1: like she had been waiting to dump all this information
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Speaker 1: on Mary as soon as she was well. Like, clearly
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Speaker 1: this woman has been waiting diligently for her chance to
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Speaker 1: tell her story. And the story that she dumped on
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Speaker 1: Mary at her first chance, like this day was incredible.
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Speaker 1: The woman told her that a couple of years earlier,
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Speaker 1: she had boarded the ship in England that was bound
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Speaker 1: for Brazil. But about five days into their journey, while
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Speaker 1: they're out on the open sea, the ship caught fire,
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Speaker 1: this horrible fire. Everyone's trying to evacuate, and this woman
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Speaker 1: said she was in her bedroom asleep, she didn't even
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Speaker 1: know what was happening.
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Speaker 2: And while she's.
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Speaker 1: Laying there and the ship is catching fire and beginning
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Speaker 1: to sink, this stranger comes barreling into the room, literally
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Speaker 1: wakes her up, scoops her up, and takes her to
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Speaker 1: the top deck and gets her into a lifeboat right
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Speaker 1: as the ship sinks. I mean, this stranger completely saved
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Speaker 1: this woman's life. And so this woman, the stranger who
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Speaker 1: had saved her, and a handful of other lucky people
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Speaker 1: who had made it onto this lifeboat, just began rowing
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Speaker 1: in a single direction, you know, hoping they'd find land,
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Speaker 1: and luckily they did, they found this deserted island, and
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Speaker 1: so they landed there and for a year, this woman
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Speaker 1: and the stranger and those few people subsisted on this island,
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Speaker 1: you know, barely clinging to life, you know, praying for rescue.
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Speaker 1: And amazingly, after a year of being shipwrecked, they flagged
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Speaker 1: down a ship that did rescue them and brought them
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Speaker 1: to England.
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Speaker 2: However, when they actually got.
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Speaker 1: To England, things weren't that good. The stranger who had
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Speaker 1: saved this woman had basically lost his mind from living
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Speaker 1: on this island, you know, not expecting to be rescued.
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Speaker 1: Even though they got rescued, it was like he wasn't
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Speaker 1: coherent anymore.
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Speaker 2: He had lost it.
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Speaker 1: Not to mention, he was really ill from the way
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Speaker 1: they were living on this island, you know, scavenging things
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Speaker 1: that weren't necessarily edible, but just to survive, they were
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Speaker 1: eating whatever they could.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was a.
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Speaker 1: Very rough lifestyle and this man he just hadn't really
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Speaker 1: handled it well. And so he got thrown in a
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Speaker 1: hospital and placed in a particular ward for people that
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Speaker 1: were mentally unwell, and he was basically forgotten about However,
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Speaker 1: the woman would tell Mary that, you know, when this happened,
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Speaker 1: she felt awful because she felt like this stranger had
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Speaker 1: saved her life and she kind of owed him a debt,
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Speaker 1: and so she decided it would be her mission to
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Speaker 1: find the stranger's family and let them know where he was.
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Speaker 1: And so the woman said she did some research and
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Speaker 1: she figured out where one of his relatives lived.
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Speaker 2: It was really far away, on the other side of England.
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Speaker 1: And so she spent all her money, you know, using
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Speaker 1: every vehicle she possibly could, every ride she could take,
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Speaker 1: getting as close to this location as she possibly could.
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Speaker 1: And then when she ran out of money, she just
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Speaker 1: kept on walking towards this destination and she kept going
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Speaker 1: until she literally ran out of food and water.
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Speaker 2: But she wasn't quite there yet.
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Speaker 1: She knew she was getting close, and she's just walking
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Speaker 1: and she's basically falling apart, you know, so hell bent
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Speaker 1: on finding this family member for this stranger, but she
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Speaker 1: can't quite make it. She can't quite get to the
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Speaker 1: family member's house. And that's when she finds this shed
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Speaker 1: out in the middle of the field, where she just collapses, thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: this is where I'm gonna die, and so back in
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Speaker 1: the guest room, Mary is listening to this woman tell
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Speaker 1: this unbelievable story, and at some point, the woman just
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Speaker 1: kind of stops when she gets to the shed scene,
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Speaker 1: and Mary's looking at her like, I don't I don't
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Speaker 1: really understand where you're going with this. I don't understand
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Speaker 1: why you're here telling me this, and the woman she
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Speaker 1: just starts to laugh, like this joyous laughter, just non
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Speaker 1: stop laughter, and then she goes, don't you get it?
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Speaker 1: And then seconds later Mary hears footsteps and a man
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Speaker 1: walks into the bedroom and it's Mary's husband. He was
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Speaker 1: the stranger who rescued that woman. He didn't die in
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Speaker 1: an accident two years ago, like they thought. He was
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Speaker 1: in a shipwreck, but he survived. He was the man
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Speaker 1: who got thrown in the hospital and forgotten about. And
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Speaker 1: it was this woman who was making the journey to
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Speaker 1: his aunt's house to tell her.
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Speaker 2: That he was still alive.
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Speaker 1: And it was only because Mary had that totally bizarre
20:34
Speaker 1: nightmare that sort of led her to that shed that
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Speaker 1: she found this woman who would have died in that
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Speaker 1: shed and never quite got into the aunt's house and
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Speaker 1: so never could have told the family, never could have
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Speaker 1: told Mary that her husband's still alive. It was because
20:48
Speaker 1: of that dream that fate aligned and now her husband
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Speaker 1: was back. Mary and her husband's story wound up being
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Speaker 1: published in newspapers all over the world.
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Speaker 2: I mean, people really could not get another of this story.
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Speaker 1: But despite how far reaching this story became, nobody was
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Speaker 1: ever able to come up with a logical explanation for
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Speaker 1: how so many coincidences and this crazy dream Mary had,
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