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Top 3 IMPOSSIBLE places people were found Missing 411 (Part 13) · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Forty years after a US Army soldier went missing on
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Speaker 1: this desolate Alaskan island, researchers make a startling discovery that
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Speaker 1: changes everything about that case. But before we get into
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Speaker 1: On October night, twenty ten, two year old Rowan Griffin
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Speaker 1: was in the backseat of the car next to his
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Speaker 1: two older siblings and his father was driving the car,
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Speaker 1: and they were on their way to this big family
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Speaker 1: party at Rowan's grandparents' house. They lived in Richmond, New Hampshire,
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Speaker 1: which is a pretty rural part of New Hampshire, and their.
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Speaker 2: House was literally in the woods.
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Speaker 1: He had to go down this really long driveway to
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Speaker 1: get to it, and it was this single story home
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Speaker 1: where they'd cleared out all the trees in the backyard
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Speaker 1: to kind of clear a space to have these.
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Speaker 2: Awesome cookouts for family get togethers.
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Speaker 1: And so Rowan, his two siblings, and his dad, they
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Speaker 1: get to the entrance of the driveway that's going to
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Speaker 1: bring them up to the house, and they can already
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Speaker 1: tell there's tons of people here because there's cars lining
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Speaker 1: the driveway all the way out to the street. And
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Speaker 1: so they make their way up the driveway and sure enough,
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Speaker 1: right in the backyard is just a sea of adults
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Speaker 1: and teenagers and kids. It's this huge family reunion. And
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Speaker 1: Rowan and his two siblings just take off running to
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Speaker 1: go play with their cousins. And so for the next
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Speaker 1: couple of hours, the kids were just running around having
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Speaker 1: a great time, and the adults are having a good time.
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Speaker 1: And at some point the adults started to notice, after
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Speaker 1: the fact that they would say they noticed this, they
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Speaker 1: started to notice Rowan was chasing a cat. There was
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Speaker 1: a cat that lived at the grandparents' house, and he
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Speaker 1: loved the cat, and he was chasing it all around
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Speaker 1: the backyard. And at some point Rowan ran into the
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Speaker 1: woods to chase after this cat, and a number of
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Speaker 1: adults saw him do that, but it was like mob
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Speaker 1: mentality where they each thought somebody else was watching Rowan.
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Speaker 1: They were not trying to be negligent. They just figured
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Speaker 1: there's so many people here, you know, what can go wrong.
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Speaker 1: In a very short period of time, mister Griffin realizes
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Speaker 1: he can't find his son, and so he goes to
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Speaker 1: the kids and he's like, hey, have you seen Rowan?
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Speaker 1: And they're like, oh, yeah, I think he was chasing
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Speaker 1: a cat. You know, I think he was over there.
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Speaker 1: And then mister Griffin asked the adults and they say
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Speaker 1: the same thing, Yeah, he's chasing a cat.
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Speaker 2: I think he was over there. And after looking around
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Speaker 2: for him.
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Speaker 1: And everybody basically saying he was chasing this cat and
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Speaker 1: not being able to find him, he just started yelling
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Speaker 1: to the group, Hey, everybody stopped for a second. I
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Speaker 1: can't find Rowan. You know, everyone's telling me he's chasing
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Speaker 1: a cat. Well, then can you tell me where he went?
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Speaker 1: I don't know where he is. And pretty quickly they
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Speaker 1: realize he's not in the house, he's not in the backyard,
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Speaker 1: he's not at the end of the driveway, he's not
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Speaker 1: in any of the cars.
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Speaker 2: He's not here, and.
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Speaker 1: Very quickly the group started yelling for Rowan. They're running
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Speaker 1: out into the woods, they're looking for him, and mister
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Speaker 1: Griffin is like, I don't know how long he's been
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Speaker 1: gone for, and so he calls nine to one one
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Speaker 1: right then and there. He's not taken any chances, and
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Speaker 1: so the police come out and they launched this huge search,
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Speaker 1: and then all these locals in the area that had
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Speaker 1: ATVs and four wheelers they came out and they're driving
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Speaker 1: around the forest looking for Rowan. Everybody's yelling for him.
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Speaker 1: There's hundreds of people out there. But as the sun
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Speaker 1: started to fade, they still hadn't found him. They had
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Speaker 1: found no indication of where he went. They assumed he
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Speaker 1: made it out into the forest because the last sign
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Speaker 1: of him was he was chasing a cat into the
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Speaker 1: forest potentially, but they really didn't know. And so finally
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Speaker 1: the sun does go down that night and they have
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Speaker 1: to postpone the search until first light the next morning.
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Speaker 1: And you can only imagine how horrible that was for
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Speaker 1: Rowan's parents as they're sitting inside that night wondering what's
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Speaker 1: happening to their two year old son is just out
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Speaker 1: in the woods.
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Speaker 2: By himself. So very early the next morning.
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Speaker 1: A whole bunch of volunteers went right back out into
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Speaker 1: the woods to look for Rowan. There was this one
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Speaker 1: particular group that wanted to look a little bit farther
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Speaker 1: away than where everybody else was looking. They were going
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Speaker 1: to be about three plus miles away in this swamp.
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Speaker 1: And so this group of searchers they start walking into
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Speaker 1: this swamp, and they can tell right away that it's
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Speaker 1: a very wet and deep swamp. They would take a
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Speaker 1: step onto something that looked solid and they would sink
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Speaker 1: two three feet into the water. They all had waiters
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Speaker 1: on so they wouldn't get wet, but they're basically sludging
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Speaker 1: through the swamp and it was very thick. And at
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Speaker 1: some point they make their way through a clearing and
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Speaker 1: they see on a log what looks like a pair
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Speaker 1: of children's shoes or shoes.
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Speaker 2: For sure, they look small enough to be kids.
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Speaker 1: And so they wade their way over and they climb
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Speaker 1: up onto this dry section of land and they walk
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Speaker 1: over and sure enough, their kids shoes. And so they
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Speaker 1: yell out for him a couple times, and they stop
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Speaker 1: to listen, and after a minute they hear him call back.
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Speaker 1: He's yelling here. And they walk their way past this
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Speaker 1: huge bush and they look through and they can't believe it.
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Speaker 1: They see Rowan right in the middle of this bog
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Speaker 1: of water. There is a tree that is right in
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Speaker 1: the middle of this and he's clutched onto the tree.
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Speaker 1: He looks dry, he looks okay, and he's just standing
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Speaker 1: on this island holding this tree. And so immediately the
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Speaker 1: searchers jump right in the water and they start wading
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Speaker 1: their way out to this island where Rowan is. The
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Speaker 1: whole time they're going out there, the water's you know,
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Speaker 1: up to their chest, and they're looking around and it's
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Speaker 1: at least that deep all the way around this thing.
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Speaker 1: And they're looking up at the kid and he's bone dry,
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Speaker 1: and he's two years old, so they don't know if
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Speaker 1: he knows how to swim or not, and so they're
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Speaker 1: thinking to themselves, how did he get out here? But
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Speaker 1: either way, they're like, let's just get the kid and
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Speaker 1: bring him back to his parents. And so they finally
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Speaker 1: hop up onto this island and they kind of look
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Speaker 1: over Rowan.
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Speaker 2: He seems okay. They pick him up and they keep
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Speaker 2: him out.
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Speaker 1: Of the water and they bring him back to land
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Speaker 1: and back to his parents. Initially, Rowan's parents and the
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Speaker 1: police and the searchers, everybody is just so happy that
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Speaker 1: Rowan is alive that no one is asking any questions about,
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Speaker 1: you know, what happened, and you know, what's the deal
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Speaker 1: with you being found on that island? How'd you get
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Speaker 1: out there? People are just leaving it alone. They're just
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Speaker 1: happy he's here. But after the dust had settled, so
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Speaker 1: to speak, Rowan's parents would ask him some questions, and
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Speaker 1: they would say, you know, what happened, how did you
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Speaker 1: get lost? And how'd you get on that island? And
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Speaker 1: at first Rowan was just not saying anything, but eventually
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Speaker 1: he would say that there were cows out there, and
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Speaker 1: he said that he was scared of the cows, and
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Speaker 1: that's why he went to the island because he wanted
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Speaker 1: to get away from the cows. Now, there were no
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Speaker 1: cows in that swamp or anywhere near where he was
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Speaker 1: that night, So either he didn't see anything and he
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Speaker 1: was hallucinating seeing animals at all, or he was mislabeling
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Speaker 1: something else that he was seeing.
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Speaker 2: But whatever he was seeing or believed he was.
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Speaker 1: Seeing, it scared the heck out of him, and he
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Speaker 1: would get really frightened when he would talk about these cows.
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Speaker 1: But regardless of what he saw or didn't see, the
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Speaker 1: million dollar question is how did he get out to
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Speaker 1: that island? Because in order to get out to that island,
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Speaker 1: for him, being a two year old, being the size
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Speaker 1: he was, he would have had to swim.
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Speaker 2: The water was too deep.
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Speaker 1: All the way around the island, and he didn't know
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Speaker 1: how to swim. But even if he had found a
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Speaker 1: way to magically swim out to this island, why wasn't
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Speaker 1: he wet. It's also worth noting this all took place
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Speaker 1: just a few miles away from the infamous Bennington Triangle,
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Speaker 1: which is this area in southern Vermont where there's been
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Speaker 1: a whole string of people going missing under very mysterious circumstances.
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Speaker 2: In nineteen fifty three.
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Speaker 1: Eleven year old Jerry Monkman was considered a very frail child.
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Speaker 1: He was skinnier than his peers, he was shorter than
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Speaker 1: his peers, and he had a really bad case of asthma,
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Speaker 1: which was a breathing condition that made doing anything physical
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Speaker 1: really difficult. But despite his perceived fragility, he loved going outside.
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Speaker 1: He loved hiking, and he was a proud member of
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Speaker 1: the Boy Scouts, and so on April twenty fifth of
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Speaker 1: that year, Jerry was really excited when he found out
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Speaker 1: his Boy Scout troop was offering a trip to the
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Speaker 1: Rocky Mountain foothills to go camping and hiking for a.
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Speaker 2: Weekend, and he jumped at the opportunity. So Jerry, his troop,
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Speaker 2: and his troop leaders they all pile in a van
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Speaker 2: and they make their way.
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Speaker 1: Up to the Rocky Mountains, and as soon as they
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Speaker 1: get there, they go on this wickedly rugged hike up
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Speaker 1: in the Teeton Canyon, and about an hour into their trip,
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Speaker 1: one of the troop leaders turns around and Jerry's gone.
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Speaker 1: The troop leaders did not know how long he had
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Speaker 1: been gone for, so they only searched for a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes before one of them ran down the mountain
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Speaker 1: to try to get help. Soon, the sheriff's department arrived
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Speaker 1: and six teen hundred volunteers from the town that had
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Speaker 1: heard about this. They all poured out onto the mountain
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Speaker 1: and they are combing across this mountain to find.
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Speaker 2: Jerry as quickly as possible.
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Speaker 1: But after several hours they couldn't find him, and people
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Speaker 1: started to think the worst.
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Speaker 2: And then just then the bloodhound they had.
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Speaker 1: Brought out to try to track his scent picked up
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Speaker 1: Jerry's scent and it starts taking off up the trail,
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Speaker 1: and the handler of the dog tells everyone, hey, he's
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Speaker 1: picked him up.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna find him. We're gonna find him.
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Speaker 1: And he thinks the dog's gonna lead him to him,
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Speaker 1: you know, within a mile or so of where they are.
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Speaker 1: But the dog just stays on a complete bee line
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Speaker 1: for six hours. It just tracks straight north for six
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Speaker 1: hours until it comes to this big swamp where it stops,
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Speaker 1: like I've found it.
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Speaker 2: This is where it ends.
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Speaker 1: This swamp was twelve miles away from where Jerry had
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Speaker 1: gone missing. So the handler and the people that had
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Speaker 1: followed this dog, they searched the swamp because even though
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Speaker 1: they thought it was totally improbable that Jerry, this frail
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Speaker 1: eleven year old with asthma, would have maneuvered twelve miles
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Speaker 1: uphill through rugged terrain into the swamp, they still felt
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Speaker 1: like they needed to search it.
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Speaker 2: So they searched the swamp.
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Speaker 1: There wasn't anything there, so the dog handler's thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: my dog must have made a mistake, and so he
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Speaker 1: gives the scent again to the dog, thinking the dog
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Speaker 1: will turn and start heading back towards where Jerry had
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Speaker 1: gone missing, but instead, his dog basically just reconfirms that nope,
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Speaker 1: this is where the.
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Speaker 2: Scent brought me. I'm still right.
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Speaker 1: And so the dog handler and everybody else that had
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Speaker 1: made this long, treacherous, twelve mile journey up to the swamp,
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Speaker 1: they just decided that the dog must have made a
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Speaker 1: mistake and the kid could never have been here. The
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Speaker 1: next morning, at eight am, an eight year old boy
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Speaker 1: named David was riding his horse about thirty miles away
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Speaker 1: from where Jerry had gone missing, and he happened to
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Speaker 1: be looking over at the tree line and a boy
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Speaker 1: stumbles out of the tree line and waves to him,
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Speaker 1: and so David goes over and it turns out it's
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Speaker 1: Jerry Monkman. Jerry would just tell David that he needs
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Speaker 1: to get back to his group, and David would say,
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Speaker 1: you know, what are you doing out here? And Jerry
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Speaker 1: just said, I don't really know.
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Speaker 2: I need to get back to my I was with
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Speaker 2: a group yesterday and I need to get back to them.
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Speaker 1: And apparently David asked him, well, how did you get
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Speaker 1: here if you were with them yesterday? And all Jerry
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Speaker 1: could say was, I fell asleep under a tree.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: When word got back to the searchers that they had
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Speaker 1: found Jerry and they had found him thirty miles away,
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Speaker 1: they couldn't believe it. The day before it had been
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Speaker 1: unbelievable that he could have traveled twelve miles to that swamp,
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Speaker 1: like literally unbelievable. They didn't believe it. Nope, he couldn't
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Speaker 1: have done it. And now clearly he's traveled at least
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Speaker 1: thirty miles to have been found by David where he
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Speaker 1: was found, and that's thirty miles as the crow flies,
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Speaker 1: meaning overhead air miles thirty miles. The reality is when
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Speaker 1: you're walking in the wilderness, you don't walk in straight lines.
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Speaker 1: You make turns and you go left their switchbacks, and
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Speaker 1: the area he must have gone through over those thirty
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Speaker 1: miles is all unmarked. It's this rugged, hilly, awful unmarked terrain.
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Speaker 1: So for sure he probably covered forty plus miles to
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Speaker 1: get there. And so the police asked him, how did
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Speaker 1: you do this? How did you cover the distance?
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Speaker 2: You covered?
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Speaker 1: In such a short amount of time, and Jerry would
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Speaker 1: say he just remembers sleeping under a tree and then
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Speaker 1: waking up and he would see animals poking their heads
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Speaker 1: around from behind different trees, and he didn't know what
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Speaker 1: kind of animals they were, but they were watching him,
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Speaker 1: and he was worried they were going to hurt him,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't, and he said he was able to
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Speaker 1: just keep walking and he would keep sleeping under these trees,
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Speaker 1: and he kept seeing these animals that were watching him,
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Speaker 1: and he just kept saying, they never hurt me, They
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Speaker 1: never hurt me. And so obviously this did not answer
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Speaker 1: any of the questions that the investigators were looking to answer,
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Speaker 1: and they just felt like, Okay, maybe he's in shock
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Speaker 1: and we can ask him at another time. But the
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Speaker 1: theory became like, well, then he must have been abducted
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Speaker 1: to cover this distance, But that begs the question, who's
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Speaker 1: capable of moving an eleven year old that much distance
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Speaker 1: in such a short amount of time. We're talking about
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Speaker 1: a thirty hour window moving potentially fifty plus miles, lugging
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Speaker 1: in eleven year old around, And then even if there
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Speaker 1: was someone or something that was capable of lifting up
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Speaker 1: an eleven year old and maneuvering them that much distance
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Speaker 1: in such a short amount of.
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Speaker 2: Time, Well, to what end? Why would they do that?
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Speaker 2: Why was Jerry then maneuvered to the swamp and then
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Speaker 2: maneuvered to where he was found? It doesn't make any sense.
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Speaker 1: One of the most remote places in the world is
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Speaker 1: Buldere Island in Alaska. It's two thirds of the wad
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Speaker 1: Russia along the Aleutian Chain of islands. The nearest inhabited
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Speaker 1: island is about fifty miles away. The weather on Buldeer
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Speaker 1: Island is pretty brutal, especially during the winter, and there's
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Speaker 1: no electricity there. In nineteen forty four, the United States
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Speaker 1: Army decided they wanted to send five of their soldiers
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Speaker 1: to monitor the weather station on Buldeer Island. That was
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Speaker 1: like the one thing the island was used for. And
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Speaker 1: so one of the people that was sent on this
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Speaker 1: assignment was a guy by the name of Bud Houston.
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Speaker 1: Bud was born in Wisconsin and worked in a shipyard
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Speaker 1: before enlisting in the Army in nineteen forty two. He
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Speaker 1: was a big hunter and outdoorsman, and so the prospect
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Speaker 1: of living on this kind of desolate Alaskan Island really
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Speaker 1: appealed to him, and he was excited about the assignment.
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Speaker 1: In October of that year, Bud was flown out to
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Speaker 1: Boldeer Island and he met with the other four soldiers
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Speaker 1: that were going to be living on the island with him.
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Speaker 2: It was going to be those five on the island.
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Speaker 1: No one else is there, and they quickly learned their
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Speaker 1: job of monitoring the weather station was a very low
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Speaker 1: effort job, and so they could do all of their
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Speaker 1: tasks over the course of the day pretty easily, and
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Speaker 1: it freed up a lot of time for them to
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Speaker 1: explore the island, and that would actually become their favorite
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Speaker 1: pastime because there really wasn't much else to do there.
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Speaker 2: Except explore the island.
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Speaker 1: And so very quickly they became very familiar with the
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Speaker 1: whole island because it wasn't that big. It was about
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Speaker 1: maybe two and a half miles wide by four and
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Speaker 1: a half miles long.
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Speaker 2: On March third, nineteen forty.
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Speaker 1: Five, so five months after they've arrived on Boldeer Island,
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Speaker 1: so by now they know every square inch of the island.
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Speaker 2: They're very comfortable here.
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Speaker 1: They had to do a routine patrol around the weather
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Speaker 1: station This was something they did multiple times a week,
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Speaker 1: so very routine, and all five of them are sitting
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Speaker 1: in the weather station and Bud says he'll do it.
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Speaker 1: So Bud gets his rifle and he heads outside to
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Speaker 1: do this patrol, and the other four just sitting in
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Speaker 1: the weather station. And after about an hour they realized
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Speaker 1: Bud hasn't come back yet, and this patrol does not
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Speaker 1: take more than twenty minutes, and so they step outside
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Speaker 1: to see if he's out there. And the weather at
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Speaker 1: the time was very mild. You know, there's no snow
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Speaker 1: on the ground, it's not very cold, it's not very windy,
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Speaker 1: and the visibility this night was pretty good, and so
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Speaker 1: they're looking out over the island and the island has
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Speaker 1: no trees. At the very far end, at the opposite
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Speaker 1: end of where the weather station is, there's one significant
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Speaker 1: sized mountain, but short of that, it's not particularly mountainous.
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Speaker 1: So from their perspective, they could look out over the
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Speaker 1: island and basically see everything, and they don't see him anywhere.
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Speaker 1: At first, they were not that worried about it, because
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Speaker 1: they figure, you know, what, he.
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Speaker 2: Knows what he's doing.
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Speaker 1: He's been here so long, he's probably just out exploring
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Speaker 1: or something.
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Speaker 2: But they decided they would.
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Speaker 1: Go look for him. They go down to the water,
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Speaker 1: he's not down there. They walk all around the far
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Speaker 1: side of the island. They can't find him. And so
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Speaker 1: by the time they get back to the weather station,
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Speaker 1: they were like, we have to tell the command that
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Speaker 1: we've lost him. So they radio back to higher command
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Speaker 1: and they say, we don't know where he went. He
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Speaker 1: went out on patrol and we didn't hear anything, and
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Speaker 1: now he's gone. And so a whole bunch of reinforcements
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Speaker 1: came out to the island to look on foot with
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Speaker 1: the other four soldiers, as well as planes and helicopters,
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Speaker 1: and for two days they looked all over that island
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Speaker 1: for Bud and they couldn't find him. And you've got
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Speaker 1: to remember that there's very few places you could possibly
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Speaker 1: even go on the island that they wouldn't be able
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Speaker 1: to look and see you. And so everyone started to
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Speaker 1: think he must have jumped into the water or fallen
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Speaker 1: into the water, because there's nowhere for him to hide
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Speaker 1: on the island. And so after a couple of days
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Speaker 1: they were so sure that it was just not possible
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Speaker 1: for him to be on the island that they called
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Speaker 1: the search.
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Speaker 2: Off and they said he must have fallen into the water.
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Speaker 1: Fast forward forty years to nineteen eighty eight, and the
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Speaker 1: US Fish and Wildlife Service was studying birds un blow
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Speaker 1: to your Island and they made.
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Speaker 2: This amazing discovery.
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Speaker 1: This crew had set up their camp at sixteen hundred
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Speaker 1: feet of elevation on the one large mountain on the
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Speaker 1: far side of the island, basically on the opposite end
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Speaker 1: of the island from the weather station, and one of
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Speaker 1: the crew members happened to just walk around one of
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Speaker 1: the boulders and they looked down and there was this
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Speaker 1: little tiny crevice between the boulder and the ground, and
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Speaker 1: he thought he saw something inside of it, and he
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Speaker 1: got down and he looked, and he realized that there
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Speaker 1: was a skeleton that had been kind of crammed into
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Speaker 1: this tiny, little tight space, and the skeleton had a
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Speaker 1: military uniform on it had been kind of balled up,
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Speaker 1: but there was a uniform on what was left of
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Speaker 1: the skeleton, and there was also a rifle that had
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Speaker 1: been jammed down in there as well. And it would
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Speaker 1: turn out to be Bud Houston. So why did Bud
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Speaker 1: say he was going to go outside and do that patrol,
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Speaker 1: which really just meant walking around the immediate vicinity of
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Speaker 1: the weather station. You're certainly not traveling very far. Why
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Speaker 1: did he say he was going to do that and
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Speaker 1: then walk four and a half miles to the other
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Speaker 1: end of the island and then climb up fifteen hundred
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Speaker 1: feet to the top of this mountain. But even if
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Speaker 1: he had a reason to be over there, why would
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Speaker 1: he then force himself into this little tiny crevice. If
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Speaker 1: he was looking for shelter, well, the weather was incredibly mild.
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Speaker 1: It would not have been life threatening to be out
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Speaker 1: in the elements, at least not that first night or
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Speaker 1: even that second night. And he knows the island like
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Speaker 1: the back of his hand. He probably had a little
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Speaker 1: bit more time. He probably could have found a better
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Speaker 1: place for shelter than this awful little crevice. But if
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Speaker 1: he was at a place where he was seeking shelter
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Speaker 1: under these boulders instead of just walking back to the
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Speaker 1: weather station and getting real shelter, then he had to
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Speaker 1: have been in an emergency situation. That's the only way
17:38
Speaker 1: that makes sense. But if he was in an emergency situation,
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Speaker 1: he would know that his responsibility is not just to survive.
17:44
Speaker 2: It's also to be found again and to.
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Speaker 1: Make sure you're not obscured underneath a boulder so no
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Speaker 1: one can find you. This island, it was like the
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Speaker 1: easiest place to be found. There's no trees, there was
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Speaker 1: helicopters overhead in plaines, and there's all these people.
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Speaker 2: It's a small space.
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Speaker 1: All he had to do was not be under the
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Speaker 1: boulder twenty four to seven. Maybe during the day when
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Speaker 1: the weather let up, roll out from under the boulder,
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Speaker 1: let yourself be found.
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Speaker 2: But that's not what happened.
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Speaker 1: What probably happened is Bud somehow got crammed into that
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Speaker 1: little tiny crevice almost immediately after he left the.
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Speaker 2: Weather station to do that patrol.
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Speaker 1: But logically speaking, he would not do that to himself,
18:24
Speaker 1: so someone else had to do it. But all the
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Speaker 1: other people on the island were in the weather station
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Speaker 1: at the time this would have been happening. So it
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Speaker 1: really makes you wonder what happened when he walked outside
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Speaker 1: of that weather station, who or what did he see.
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Speaker 2: And what did they do to him.
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