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Speaker 1: If you hop in a boat just off the coast
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Speaker 1: of Aberdeen, Scotland, and you cruise eastward, after about seven hours,
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Speaker 1: depending on your speed and the weather, you would come
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Speaker 1: across this massive man made structure jutting up out of
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Speaker 1: the ocean. It looks like a cross between a construction
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Speaker 1: site and a corporate office building, sitting on top of
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Speaker 1: one hundred foot tall metal stilts. It's called Magellan and
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Speaker 1: it is an offshore oil rig and it will remain
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Speaker 1: in place until all the oil.
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Speaker 2: Has been sucked up in that area.
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Speaker 1: The people who work often for weeks or months at
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Speaker 1: a time. On rigs like Magellan are known as roughnecks,
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Speaker 1: and they have one of, if not the most.
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Speaker 2: Dangerous job in the world.
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Speaker 1: All exterior surfaces on these offshore rigs are always slick,
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Speaker 1: either with water or oil, and so there is a
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Speaker 1: constant risk of falling, sometimes hundreds of feet. If you're
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Speaker 1: up on a higher platform, you could fall to a
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Speaker 1: lower platform, which could be fatal, or you could fall
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Speaker 1: clean off the rig all the way to the ocean
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Speaker 1: one hundred plus feet below. If you add in some
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Speaker 1: bad windy weather, the risk of falling increases tenfold. Also,
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Speaker 1: the crude oil that these roughnecks are drilling for is
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Speaker 1: highly combustible, and so fires are a huge concern as well.
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Speaker 1: And if that wasn't risky enough, there's also this phenomenon
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Speaker 1: known as a blowout, where basically the oil well that
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Speaker 1: the drill is actually drilling into we'll just explode. Now,
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Speaker 1: all rigs have some sort of mitigating equipment to try
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Speaker 1: to save themselves in case this occurs, but in reality,
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Speaker 1: if it happens and you are unfortunately near the drill when.
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Speaker 2: It happens, you are likely to be killed or maimed.
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Speaker 1: While the downsides of working on an oil rig are
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Speaker 1: fairly obvious. The upsides are too, namely, your pay is fantastic.
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Speaker 1: In two thousand, a forty one year old father of
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Speaker 1: two named Gordon Moffat was a roughneck working on the Magellan.
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Speaker 1: His primary job was to perform maintenance on the drill. Now,
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Speaker 1: these offshore rigs work great most of the time, but
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Speaker 1: they do have a habit of breaking down fairly often,
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Speaker 1: and for a drilling company, anytime they are not sucking
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Speaker 1: out crude oil, they're losing money. And so it was
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Speaker 1: just a known thing when you worked on one of
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Speaker 1: these rigs that as soon as there is an issue
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Speaker 1: that causes the drill to stop working, it must be
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Speaker 1: fixed immediately. Whether it's day night, horrible weather, good weather,
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Speaker 1: it didn't matter. It had to be fixed right away.
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Speaker 1: And so on the night of October ninth that year,
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Speaker 1: Gordon had just gotten back to his quarters to end
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Speaker 1: the day when he got a call on his radio
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Speaker 1: that he was actually needed to come back out to
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Speaker 1: fix a problem that had stopped the drill. Now, Gordon
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Speaker 1: was a seasoned roughneck and he had grown quite accustomed
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Speaker 1: to these late night calls to go out and fix things.
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Speaker 2: And so he wasn't annoyed.
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Speaker 1: He just put his stuff back on, turned around, and
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Speaker 1: he headed out the door. When Gordon got to the
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Speaker 1: main deck, which is this wide open metal platform right
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Speaker 1: in the middle of the rig where the drill actually
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Speaker 1: passes down through it on its way to the ocean.
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Speaker 1: When he got to the main deck, he was met
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Speaker 1: by some of his co workers who told him where
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Speaker 1: he would need to go. The cabling that needed fixing
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Speaker 1: was located right below the main deck. However, it was
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Speaker 1: not accessible from the main deck. In order for Gordon
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Speaker 1: to get to it, he would need to go down
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Speaker 1: to the next lowest platform from the main deck. Basically,
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Speaker 1: he would need to pop in an elevator and go
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Speaker 1: down one floor, and from this lower deck, the crew
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Speaker 1: on the main deck would.
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Speaker 2: Lower down a harness attached to a long wire.
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Speaker 1: They would feed it down through this hole in the
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Speaker 1: main deck platform called a mousehole. It was about ten
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Speaker 1: inches across, and they would feed it down and he
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Speaker 1: would grab the harness. He would put it on, and
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Speaker 1: then he would signal up to the main deck crew
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Speaker 1: who could literally see him through this mousehole. They would
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Speaker 1: turn around and they would signal somebody called the hoist operator,
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Speaker 1: and they were located above the main deck slightly back.
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Speaker 1: They couldn't actually see Gordon, so they were relying on
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Speaker 1: communications with the people on the main deck and the
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Speaker 1: hoist operator would start their winch and a wench basically
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Speaker 1: reels in the wire that was connected to the harness
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Speaker 1: that was on Gordon, and so once the hoist operator
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Speaker 1: was informed, he'd turn on the winch and then Gordon
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Speaker 1: would be raised up until he could access these cables
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Speaker 1: and then he'd do his maintenance and be lowered back
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Speaker 1: down and that would be it. Now, Gordon and the
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Speaker 1: crew had done maintenance using this wench system many times before,
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Speaker 1: so this was a very routine fix.
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Speaker 2: So Gordon made his way.
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Speaker 1: From the main deck down to the slightly lower deck
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Speaker 1: and he looked up at the mousehole. Then he watched
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Speaker 1: as the main deck crew members lowered the harness with
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Speaker 1: the wire attached to it down through the mousehole, and
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Speaker 1: so Gordon grabbed the harness. He put it around his
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Speaker 1: waist and he secured it and after he was sure
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Speaker 1: it was on correctly, he signaled up to the crew
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Speaker 1: on the main deck that he was ready to start,
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Speaker 1: and they in turn turned around. They flagged the hoist
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Speaker 1: operator who started the winch, and so very slowly Gordon
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Speaker 1: was lifted off the platform he was standing on and
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Speaker 1: he was brought up, after several minutes, all the way
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Speaker 1: up about ten feet to access these cables. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as he was parallel with them, he waved to
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Speaker 1: the main deck crew, who were not far from him
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Speaker 1: at this point, and he said, I'm good, and so
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Speaker 1: they turned around. They told the hoist operator who stopped
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Speaker 1: the winch, and so Gordon got his tools out and
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Speaker 1: he began working on these cables. And the whole time
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Speaker 1: he's trying to stay in one place because the wind
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Speaker 1: is whipping through and he's kind of dangling and swinging around.
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Speaker 1: And then eventually he finishes the repair. The cables are good,
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Speaker 1: and so he signals the crew on the main deck
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Speaker 1: through the mousehole that he was good to go.
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Speaker 2: You can lower me back.
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Speaker 1: Down now, and so the main deck crew they turn
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Speaker 1: they waved to the hoist operator to go ahead and
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Speaker 1: lower Gordon, and the hoist operator he gives the thumbs
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Speaker 1: up and he starts the winch. However, the hoist operator
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Speaker 1: accidentally forgot to switch the direction of the winch and
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Speaker 1: so when he started it again. Instead of the winch
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Speaker 1: spooling the wire out and lowering Gordon, it continued to
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Speaker 1: reel the wire in, pulling Gordon upward. Now, the winch
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Speaker 1: did not move very quickly and so it wasn't like
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Speaker 1: Gordon is rocketing up towards the mousehole. However, this problem
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Speaker 1: was immediately recognized by Gordon and the main deck crew,
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Speaker 1: and so they're frustrated. They're yelling up at the hoist operator,
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Speaker 1: saying stop, stop, stop, reverse the winch. They're all waving
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Speaker 1: and flagging this guy down. But the hoist operator, after
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Speaker 1: he had hit start on the winch, had just kind
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Speaker 1: of turned around because this is a routine thing they'd
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Speaker 1: done a million times before, and so he's not looking
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Speaker 1: at the crew on the main deck, so he has
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Speaker 1: no idea what's going on. And it was so windy
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Speaker 1: and loud that night on board the rig that he
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Speaker 1: couldn't hear their cries. Winch just continued to reel in
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Speaker 1: the wire, slowly, raising Gordon closer and closer to the mousehole.
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Speaker 1: Now Gordon could not get out of his harness unless
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Speaker 1: he was on the platform below, so there was no
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Speaker 1: way to escape the situation.
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Speaker 2: He was in, and so Gordon.
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Speaker 1: After a few seconds of this not stopping in him
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Speaker 1: continuing upward, he starts screaming. He's not annoyed anymore. He's terrified,
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Speaker 1: and so is the crew on the main deck. They
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Speaker 1: are now frantically screaming at the hoist operator to stop
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Speaker 1: the winch, but nothing is working, and so one of
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Speaker 1: the main deck crew members, sensing that they need to
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Speaker 1: do something different to get this guy's attention, he runs
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Speaker 1: away from where the mousehole is to this nearby phone.
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Speaker 1: And this phone is connected up to the hoist operator
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Speaker 1: station and he picks it up and it starts dialing
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Speaker 1: up in the hoist operator station. He's still not paying
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Speaker 1: attention when the phone rings, he grabs the phone, puts
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Speaker 1: it to his ear, and immediately he's hit with screams
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Speaker 1: to stop the winch, and so the hoist operator, totally confused,
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Speaker 1: whips around and hits stop on the winch, but.
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Speaker 2: It was too late.
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Speaker 1: Just a few moments earlier, Gordon had finally been pulled
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Speaker 1: all the way up right to the entrance of the
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Speaker 1: underside of this mousehole, and as he reached this hole,
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Speaker 1: he tried to position himself in a vertical position, so
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Speaker 1: that maybe he could slip his upper body into the
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Speaker 1: hole and he could just kind of slide through the hole.
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Speaker 2: He'd still be hurt by it, but it would limit
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Speaker 2: the damage.
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Speaker 1: However, because of his harness being on his waist right
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Speaker 1: in front of him, he couldn't get himself into a
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Speaker 1: vertical position. He could only lay back in a horizontal one.
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Speaker 1: And so when he reached the underside of the main
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Speaker 1: deck and he's looking right at this mouse hole, he
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Speaker 1: just put his arms and his legs out and tried
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Speaker 1: to push himself back as if he could fight the
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Speaker 1: winch and keep himself from going into this hole. But
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Speaker 1: there was nothing he could do, and so his pelvis
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Speaker 1: first was pulled into the ten inch hole, and as
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Speaker 1: his body begins to literally break in half, he's screaming
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Speaker 1: out in pain. And then by the time the hoist
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Speaker 1: operator had hit stop, Gordon was already deceased, and only
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Speaker 1: a section of his torso actually made it up through
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Speaker 1: the whole. Gordon's company was found guilty of being blatantly
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Speaker 1: delinquent on many safety protocols, and so they were fined
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Speaker 1: sixty thousand pounds and then they paid an undisclosed amount.
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Speaker 2: To Gordon's family.
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Speaker 2: Okay, back to the stories. In October of nineteen.
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Speaker 1: Ninety four, a middle aged man named Ivan who lived
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Speaker 1: in Estonia, which is a country in northern Europe, was
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Speaker 1: walking in this forest looking for firewood. This forest butted
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Speaker 1: up against the town he lived in, which was called Tamiku,
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Speaker 1: and so as a result of his proximity to it,
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Speaker 1: he had spent a lot of time in these woods
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Speaker 1: over the years, but in general, his exposure to this
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Speaker 1: forest was just on the fringes. He would only look
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Speaker 1: for firewood along the perimeter of the woods. But for
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Speaker 1: whatever reason, that day, he was just really having a
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Speaker 1: hard time finding good firewood, and so at some point
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Speaker 1: he decided to just walk deeper into the woods to
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Speaker 1: see if he would have luck in there. And so
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Speaker 1: he turns and starts walking into the forest, and very quickly,
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Speaker 1: when the town has kind of disappeared from view behind him,
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Speaker 1: he looked around and kind.
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Speaker 2: Of liked being in the woods.
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Speaker 1: He didn't go for walks in the woods, and suddenly
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Speaker 1: he was on this nice nature walk, and so he decided,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I can wait on the firewood. I'll
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Speaker 1: just walk in the forest for a little while longer
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Speaker 1: and enjoy myself and kind of meditate. So he just
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Speaker 1: continued walking deeper and deeper into the woods, and after
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Speaker 1: walking for nearly an hour, just kind of mindlessly walking about,
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Speaker 1: he sees up ahead there is very clearly a clearing,
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Speaker 1: and then before the clearing is what looks like a
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Speaker 1: chain link fence.
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Speaker 2: Now, he's never been.
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Speaker 1: This deep into the woods before, so he has no
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Speaker 1: idea what this is, but he's obviously curious, and so
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Speaker 1: he decides he'll go see what it is. And so
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Speaker 1: he continues walking closer and closer to what obviously is
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Speaker 1: a chain link fence, and as he's getting closer to it,
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Speaker 1: the trees around him are beginning to thin out, and suddenly,
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Speaker 1: before he even reaches the fence, he gets a very
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Speaker 1: clear view of what's on the other side, and it's
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Speaker 1: this huge, multi story building. It almost looks like a
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Speaker 1: factory or some sort of government facility, and it's sitting
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Speaker 1: maybe a couple hundred feet away from the fence, right
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Speaker 1: in the middle of this property, and there's really nothing
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Speaker 1: around it. It's just this cleared out, big open area
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Speaker 1: with this big building right in the middle, and there's a.
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Speaker 2: Fence all the way around it.
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Speaker 1: And so Ivan is totally intrigued by this, and so
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Speaker 1: he walks right up to the fence. He grabs onto
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Speaker 1: it and he tries to look and figure out what
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Speaker 1: this building is. But there's no clear signage on it,
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Speaker 1: and there's no people anywhere. It's completely barren. There's nothing
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Speaker 1: but this building. And then he notices there's obviously graffiti
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Speaker 1: on the sides of this building, and the doors and
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Speaker 1: windows appeared to be boarded up, and so this building,
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Speaker 1: whatever it is, is clearly abandoned. And the first thought
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Speaker 1: that goes through Ivan's head is scrap metal. Times were
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Speaker 1: tough for Ivan and his family, and so he and
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Speaker 1: his two brothers, they all lived together. They would go
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Speaker 1: out and they would steal scrap metal and sell it
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Speaker 1: for a little bit of extra cash to make ends
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Speaker 1: meet and prove for their big family. And so he's
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Speaker 1: looking at this big building, thinking, you know, if I
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Speaker 1: can get in there, I guarantee you there is some
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Speaker 1: metal that I can steal and I can sell. And
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Speaker 1: so Ivan stayed at this fence, just kind of staring
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Speaker 1: at this building for a little while longer, and continued
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Speaker 1: to look around to make sure there weren't any people
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Speaker 1: that he hadn't seen before. And after feeling satisfied that
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Speaker 1: this really was a totally abandoned building. He turned around
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Speaker 1: and began hustling back towards town, and when he finally
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Speaker 1: made it to town, making sure to grab some firewood
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Speaker 1: along the way, he rounded up his two brothers and
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Speaker 1: he told them about this find in the forest, and
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Speaker 1: they all very excitedly agreed that that night they would
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Speaker 1: go right back out there and they would go inside
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Speaker 1: the building and see what they could find.
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Speaker 2: And so around nine pm that night, the.
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Speaker 1: Brothers met up and they had flashlights in a set
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Speaker 1: of bolt cutters, and they headed into the nearby forest
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Speaker 1: and they marched their way all the way up to
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Speaker 1: this fence that Ivan had found earlier in the day,
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Speaker 1: and they lifted their flashlights up and they scanned through
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Speaker 1: the fence all over the property, and when they didn't
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Speaker 1: see anyone, they put their flashlights down, and one by
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Speaker 1: one they climbed up and over this fence, and then
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Speaker 1: once they were all on the other side, they began
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Speaker 1: making their way up to this huge building sitting in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the property. And when they got up
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Speaker 1: to this building, they confirmed it definitely looked like it
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Speaker 1: was abandoned, except all of the doors and windows were
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Speaker 1: sealed in such a way that even with bolt cutters,
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Speaker 1: there was just no way to pry them open. They
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Speaker 1: were not going to get inside this building. And so
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Speaker 1: after a little while of still trying to kind of
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Speaker 1: smash their way into this building, the brothers all linked
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Speaker 1: up and they decided, you know what, we're not getting
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Speaker 1: in and the longer we stay here, the better the
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Speaker 1: chances are that we.
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Speaker 2: Get caught, and so let's just head back.
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Speaker 1: And so, feeling totally dejected, they turn and they start
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Speaker 1: walking back towards the fence they hopped in on, and
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Speaker 1: as they're walking along, they're kind of shining their lights
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Speaker 1: left and right and looking around, and off to the
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Speaker 1: far right side of the property there is this small
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Speaker 1: shack that they had not noticed on their way in,
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Speaker 1: and so the brothers look at each other and they're like, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know, we're already on this side of the fence.
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Speaker 1: We might as well go check it out and see
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Speaker 1: what's inside of it. Maybe there's scrap metal in there.
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Speaker 1: And so the brothers turn and start making their way
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Speaker 1: over to the shed, and when they get there, they
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Speaker 1: discover it's only secured with a simple padlock on a
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Speaker 1: wooden door. So they get their bolt cutters, they pop
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Speaker 1: off the lock, they open up the door, and there's
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Speaker 1: initially nothing inside, at least that's what they think. But
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Speaker 1: they move something on the ground and it reveals this
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Speaker 1: stairwell that leads into this underground bunker. And now it's
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Speaker 1: the middle of the night on this abandoned property they'd
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Speaker 1: snuck into, and so there's some apprehension.
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Speaker 2: But they shine their lights down the steps, and they didn't.
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Speaker 1: See any immediate hazards, and they're thinking, you know what,
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Speaker 1: this is an adventure. Let's go down and see what's
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Speaker 1: down there. And so they all went down the steps,
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Speaker 1: and when they got down to the bottom, they turned
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Speaker 1: the corner and they shine their light to see what's
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Speaker 1: down here. And what was down there was this huge
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Speaker 1: cellar that was full of scrap metal. There was metal
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Speaker 1: all over the ground. And then there were also these
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Speaker 1: shelves that went as far back as their lights could shine,
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Speaker 1: and on the lower shelves there were these weird square
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Speaker 1: metal boxes that almost looked like briefcases. And then above
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Speaker 1: those on the top shelf were fifty five Allen aluminum drums,
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Speaker 1: and in the brothers' experience, these drums were very, very valuable,
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Speaker 1: except they needed to make sure they weren't full of
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Speaker 1: some liquid, because if they're full, they weigh like five
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Speaker 1: hundred pounds and there's no way they'd be able to
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Speaker 1: get them out, and then trying to open them up
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Speaker 1: and spill whatever's inside of them is hazardous for a
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Speaker 1: lot of reasons. And so they walked over to the
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Speaker 1: first fifty five gallon drum they saw and they pushed
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Speaker 1: it to see if it was empty, and the drum
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Speaker 1: immediately rocked back and forth, echoing inside, indicating that it
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Speaker 1: was empty. This was a huge, huge win, and so
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Speaker 1: the brothers are totally amazed.
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Speaker 2: They grabbed this for a drum. They pull it off
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Speaker 2: the shelf and they wheel it.
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Speaker 1: Over to the base of the steps, and then they
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Speaker 1: go back to get another drum off the shelf, and
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Speaker 1: they reach up they grab another empty drum, and as
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Speaker 1: they're pulling it off, it dislodges another fifty five gallon
16:50
Speaker 1: drum that was nearby that was full of some liquid.
16:53
Speaker 2: So it weighed five hundred pounds and it comes.
16:56
Speaker 1: Crashing off the shelf and it lands on Ivan's leg,
16:59
Speaker 1: pinning them to the and immediately the two other brothers
17:02
Speaker 1: pulled the drum off of Ivan, but it was obvious
17:05
Speaker 1: there had been significant damage done to his leg. Ivan
17:08
Speaker 1: couldn't even stand up anymore. And so the brothers are
17:10
Speaker 1: looking around, thinking, man, this is an amazing hall, but
17:13
Speaker 1: if Ivan can't even walk, I mean, it's going to
17:15
Speaker 1: be a nightmare trying to haul this metal back while
17:18
Speaker 1: also supporting Ivan. And so they decided they would leave
17:21
Speaker 1: now and they would wait for Ivan to heal up,
17:23
Speaker 1: and then they would come back and they would collect
17:25
Speaker 1: their amazing hall. And so the brothers they reached down
17:28
Speaker 1: and they picked up whatever pieces of metal they could.
17:30
Speaker 1: It just kind of stuffed in their pockets. And then
17:32
Speaker 1: the two brothers supported Ivan and carried him up the stairs,
17:35
Speaker 1: and then they very slowly walked their way over to
17:37
Speaker 1: the fence, and then somehow the three of them got
17:40
Speaker 1: up and over the fence, and then very slowly they
17:43
Speaker 1: made their way all the way through the forest.
17:45
Speaker 2: Back to Tamiku.
17:46
Speaker 1: And when they got there, the two brothers helped Ivan
17:49
Speaker 1: get into his house and they put him in his bed,
17:51
Speaker 1: and then Ivan went to sleep. The next morning, when
17:54
Speaker 1: Ivan got up, he was expecting to feel better, but
17:57
Speaker 1: in fact, his leg felt exponentially worse and then over
18:00
Speaker 1: the course of the next seventy two hours, Ivan still
18:03
Speaker 1: believed if he just gutted it out and he waited,
18:06
Speaker 1: his leg would get better.
18:07
Speaker 2: But it just got worse and worse and worse.
18:09
Speaker 1: And so four days after this leg injury, Ivan was
18:13
Speaker 1: in so much pain he couldn't do anything, and so
18:16
Speaker 1: he finally decided he had to go to the hospital.
18:18
Speaker 1: And so when he gets to the hospital, the doctor
18:21
Speaker 1: asks Ivan, you know what happened to your leg? And
18:23
Speaker 1: Ivan would tell him that, oh, I was in the
18:25
Speaker 1: woods and a tree fell on my leg, because he
18:27
Speaker 1: didn't want to admit to trying to steal scrap metal.
18:29
Speaker 2: And so the doctors they accepted this.
18:31
Speaker 1: It seemed totally reasonable based on what his injury looked like,
18:34
Speaker 1: and so they admitted him to the hospital. I put
18:36
Speaker 1: him in his hospital room and right away the doctors
18:39
Speaker 1: and nurses began administering all the treatments and things they
18:42
Speaker 1: would do for a crush injury, but it seemed like
18:46
Speaker 1: nothing was working. Over the course of the next several days,
18:50
Speaker 1: Ivan complained endlessly of the pain in his leg getting
18:53
Speaker 1: worse and worse and worse, and the swelling was going
18:55
Speaker 1: up and overall Ivan's health just continued to deteriorate over
18:59
Speaker 1: his stay in the hospital, and then a week after
19:02
Speaker 1: being admitted to the hospital, so roughly ten or eleven
19:05
Speaker 1: days after he was hurt, the doctors walked into his
19:08
Speaker 1: room and he was dead. His kidneys had just abruptly failed,
19:12
Speaker 1: and the doctors and nurses had absolutely no idea why,
19:16
Speaker 1: and so they told the family, we don't know what
19:18
Speaker 1: happened to him, And so the family just had to
19:20
Speaker 1: collect Ivan's body and then they had a funeral for him.
19:23
Speaker 1: But they're all thinking to themselves, how could this have happened?
19:26
Speaker 1: He hurt his leg and then his kidneys failed. It
19:28
Speaker 1: didn't make any sense. But before they could get any
19:31
Speaker 1: clarity on that, they were dealt another tragedy. The beloved
19:34
Speaker 1: family dog just kind of abruptly died.
19:37
Speaker 2: It was young, it was.
19:38
Speaker 1: Healthy, and so just like Ivan, it was like this
19:40
Speaker 1: totally unexpected death. And so once again the family's asking
19:44
Speaker 1: what's going on here. And then just a couple of
19:46
Speaker 1: days after that, Ivan's stepson came downstairs one morning complaining
19:50
Speaker 1: of feeling sick, and when his family looked at his hands,
19:54
Speaker 1: they were blistered and covered in boils and looked like
19:57
Speaker 1: he had just reached his hands into a fire or something.
20:00
Speaker 1: But he would tell his family, I didn't do that.
20:02
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with my hands. I
20:03
Speaker 1: don't know why I feel so sick. And so the
20:05
Speaker 1: family rushed the boy to the hospital, and naturally, the
20:08
Speaker 1: doctors asked him, you know, how did your hands get
20:10
Speaker 1: this way?
20:11
Speaker 2: What happened to you? And the boy would say, I
20:13
Speaker 2: don't know.
20:13
Speaker 1: But over the course of this initial discussion with doctors,
20:16
Speaker 1: the boy would tell them that over the last couple
20:19
Speaker 1: of days, he had been sifting through his stepfather Ivan's possessions,
20:23
Speaker 1: and he had actually been using some of Ivan's tools
20:26
Speaker 1: from his toolbox. Now, the doctors were already aware of
20:29
Speaker 1: the strangeness around Ivan's death, and they were aware of
20:33
Speaker 1: the sudden passing of the family dog, and now they're
20:35
Speaker 1: seeing this boy who is showing up with these strange
20:38
Speaker 1: symptoms for no particular reason. And so the doctors knew
20:41
Speaker 1: something was off, and so on a hunch, they contacted
20:44
Speaker 1: the authorities and they told them what they thought. And
20:47
Speaker 1: then later that day, the authorities showed up at Ivan's
20:50
Speaker 1: family's house and when they got out of the car,
20:52
Speaker 1: they were covered head to toe in white hazardous material suits,
20:56
Speaker 1: and they told the family to evacuate the house for
20:59
Speaker 1: their safety. And then these people in suits got out
21:02
Speaker 1: these special wands and tools and they marched into the
21:05
Speaker 1: family home and immediately all their equipment led them to
21:08
Speaker 1: this one particular closet near the kitchen, and when they
21:11
Speaker 1: opened it up, in the closet was Ivan's toolbox, the
21:15
Speaker 1: same one the boy had been handling over the past
21:17
Speaker 1: couple of days. And when they opened that up, they
21:19
Speaker 1: found there were lots of normal tools you would expect
21:22
Speaker 1: inside of a toolbox, and they discovered one strange piece
21:26
Speaker 1: of scrap metal. It was the only piece of scrap
21:29
Speaker 1: metal that Ivan had grabbed off the floor of that
21:32
Speaker 1: cellar and tucked in his pocket before he and his
21:35
Speaker 1: brothers had left. And then after Ivan had passed away,
21:38
Speaker 1: his step son had been going through things and he
21:40
Speaker 1: had discovered this piece of scrap metal, and for whatever reason,
21:43
Speaker 1: he had transferred it from the jacket to Ivan's toolbox.
21:47
Speaker 1: What Ivan and his family didn't know was that that
21:50
Speaker 1: piece of metal was extremely dangerous because it came not
21:54
Speaker 1: from some abandoned building on some abandoned property in the
21:58
Speaker 1: middle of the forest.
22:00
Speaker 2: It came from an.
22:01
Speaker 1: Abandoned nuclear waste storage facility. That is what Ivan and
22:05
Speaker 1: his brothers had snuck onto. But because Ivan and his
22:08
Speaker 1: brothers had hopped over that side fence, they didn't see
22:12
Speaker 1: any of the warning signs that are posted on the
22:14
Speaker 1: front of the front gates telling people to stay back
22:17
Speaker 1: inside that cellar that the brothers were in. Those small
22:21
Speaker 1: metal briefcase looking things on the lower shelves were shields
22:25
Speaker 1: for radiation. Inside of each of them was radioactive metal.
22:30
Speaker 1: And when that full fifty five gallon drum came crashing
22:33
Speaker 1: off the shelf and smashed into Ivan's leg, his leg
22:36
Speaker 1: was not the only thing it smashed into. It smashed
22:40
Speaker 1: into one of those metal briefcases and broke it open,
22:43
Speaker 1: sending the radioactive metal inside of it flying out, and
22:47
Speaker 1: it landed right next to Ivan on the ground. And
22:49
Speaker 1: so when the brothers scrambled to pick up whatever loose
22:52
Speaker 1: scrap metal there was on the ground, Ivan unfortunately grabbed
22:56
Speaker 1: one piece and it was the radioactive one. By the
22:59
Speaker 1: time Ivan finally got back to his house, he was
23:02
Speaker 1: actually already dead.
23:03
Speaker 2: He just didn't know it yet.
23:05
Speaker 1: That piece of metal had been inside of his jacket pocket,
23:07
Speaker 1: and it had been pressed against his body long enough
23:09
Speaker 1: that he had been dealt a fatal dose of radiation.
23:12
Speaker 1: There was nothing anybody could have done, even if they
23:15
Speaker 1: knew what had happened to him. As for the dog,
23:17
Speaker 1: it used to sleep on Ivan's jacket, and it did
23:20
Speaker 1: so when this piece of scrap metal was inside of it,
23:23
Speaker 1: and so it too died of radiation poisoning. As for
23:26
Speaker 1: Ivan's stepson, the reason his hands had been so badly
23:29
Speaker 1: burned and why he had become so sick, that was
23:32
Speaker 1: just from his brief exchange of touching the piece of
23:34
Speaker 1: scrap metal and then putting it in Ivan's toolbox. That
23:38
Speaker 1: alone had done that much damage to him. When the
23:40
Speaker 1: doctors considered the strangeness of Ivan's death, the dog's death,
23:44
Speaker 1: and now this boy's symptoms, they did suspect radiation poisoning,
23:48
Speaker 1: and so that was how the authorities were able to
23:50
Speaker 1: get to their house and very quickly locate that toolbox. Amazingly,
23:54
Speaker 1: Ivan's stepson and the rest of Ivan's family, including his
23:57
Speaker 1: two brothers, would make full recoveries. However, several months after
24:01
Speaker 1: this event, and after authorities had come in and said
24:04
Speaker 1: their house was clear of radiation, the grandmother would suddenly
24:08
Speaker 1: die totally unexpectedly. She was healthy, nothing was wrong with her,
24:11
Speaker 1: and so even though it was not officially cited as
24:14
Speaker 1: having been caused by radiation, many people believe it's from
24:18
Speaker 1: the exposure she had to this piece of scrap metal.
24:24
Speaker 2: In twenty seventeen, seventy.
24:26
Speaker 1: One year old Bernard Gore was a retiree living in Tasmania,
24:30
Speaker 1: which is an island state of Australia. In January of
24:32
Speaker 1: that year, he and his wife of fifty years, Angela,
24:36
Speaker 1: decided to go visit their daughter, who lived in Sydney, Australia. Now,
24:40
Speaker 1: they made this trip with some regularity, and they had
24:42
Speaker 1: developed a sort of routine for every time they visited.
24:45
Speaker 1: They would land in Sydney and then the first day
24:47
Speaker 1: they would spend it entirely with their daughter at her house.
24:50
Speaker 1: And then the next day Angela would get up early
24:53
Speaker 1: and she would head out into town and do some
24:55
Speaker 1: shopping on her own, and then sometime in the afternoon
24:58
Speaker 1: Bernard would head out and he would meet up with
25:00
Speaker 1: her for lunch at a very popular spot. It was
25:02
Speaker 1: called the Westfield Center Mall, and they had an amazing
25:05
Speaker 1: food court, so on January fifth of that year, Bernard
25:08
Speaker 1: and Angela they land in Sydney, and like they always did,
25:11
Speaker 1: they went straight to their daughter's house and they spent
25:13
Speaker 1: the day with her. And then early the next morning,
25:15
Speaker 1: Angela got up and she headed out to do her
25:17
Speaker 1: shopping and before she left, she confirmed with her husband
25:21
Speaker 1: that they would meet up for lunch at Westfield Center Mall. Now,
25:24
Speaker 1: as it happened, that day, Angela actually chose to do
25:28
Speaker 1: her shopping at Westfield Center Mall, and so she was
25:31
Speaker 1: there around lunchtime when she was supposed to meet Bernard,
25:34
Speaker 1: and so when she looked at her watch and she
25:36
Speaker 1: realized it was time to meet him, she just simply
25:38
Speaker 1: stepped out of the shop she was in and headed
25:40
Speaker 1: over to the food court.
25:41
Speaker 2: And when she got there, she found their meeting spot.
25:43
Speaker 1: It was in front of one of their favorite restaurants,
25:45
Speaker 1: and she sat down, and then she scanned around looking
25:48
Speaker 1: for her husband, but inside of this busy food court,
25:51
Speaker 1: she couldn't see him, And so she looked at her
25:53
Speaker 1: watch again and she realized she was a couple of
25:55
Speaker 1: minutes early, and so she grabbed a menu and she
25:57
Speaker 1: began looking for what she was going to order. While
25:59
Speaker 1: she waited for him to show up. But fifteen minutes
26:01
Speaker 1: would go by and Bernard would not show up, and
26:04
Speaker 1: so now he was late, and so Angela at this point,
26:06
Speaker 1: she pulls her phone out and she tries calling her husband,
26:09
Speaker 1: but he didn't answer. However, that was kind of common
26:12
Speaker 1: for Bernard, so not necessarily a red flag. Angela would
26:15
Speaker 1: continue to try calling her husband for the next several minutes,
26:19
Speaker 1: and each time he would not answer, and so eventually
26:22
Speaker 1: Angela just gets frustrated and she's thinking to herself, you know,
26:25
Speaker 1: maybe he just got sidetracked and he's walking around the
26:27
Speaker 1: mall somewhere, because Bernard was known for being a big
26:30
Speaker 1: window shopper, and as soon as Angela thought that, she
26:33
Speaker 1: was like, that's going to be it. And it was
26:34
Speaker 1: so frustrating for her that he had just totally blown
26:37
Speaker 1: off their lunch date. And so she stands up, she
26:39
Speaker 1: abandons her table. She's totally annoyed, and she heads out
26:42
Speaker 1: into the main shopping area to go find her husband.
26:45
Speaker 1: And so she's walking along, looking in each of the windows,
26:48
Speaker 1: expecting to see her husband, and at the same time,
26:50
Speaker 1: she's looking over her shoulder back towards the food court
26:53
Speaker 1: to see if maybe Bernard had shown up. But after
26:56
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of wandering around kind of right near the
26:59
Speaker 1: food court and not seeing him anywhere, Angela thinks to herself,
27:02
Speaker 1: you know what, I bet he thought we were supposed
27:05
Speaker 1: to meet at our daughter's house first, and so he
27:08
Speaker 1: probably hasn't even left the house yet. I bet he's
27:10
Speaker 1: just there waiting for me. And so Angela, when she
27:13
Speaker 1: realizes this, she stops looking for him in the mall.
27:15
Speaker 1: She turns around, and she begins walking towards the mall exit.
27:19
Speaker 1: But before she reaches the exit door, a terrifying thought
27:22
Speaker 1: crosses her mind. What if Bernard got confused and has
27:26
Speaker 1: no idea where he is right now? A recent unfortunate
27:29
Speaker 1: development for Bernard was that he was showing early signs
27:32
Speaker 1: of dementia. It hadn't fully taken hold of him yet,
27:35
Speaker 1: but he was clearly starting to forget.
27:37
Speaker 2: Things that he shouldn't.
27:38
Speaker 1: And so as soon as Angela thought of this, she
27:41
Speaker 1: went from being annoyed with her husband to being very
27:44
Speaker 1: worried about her husband. And so she sped through those
27:47
Speaker 1: doors outside and speed walked all the way back to
27:51
Speaker 1: her daughter's house, which was not far from the mall,
27:53
Speaker 1: and the whole time she's walking, she's telling herself she's
27:56
Speaker 1: going to walk inside and she's going to see Bernard.
27:58
Speaker 1: He's going to be in the house. But when she
27:59
Speaker 1: got to the house and went inside and saw her daughter,
28:02
Speaker 1: her daughter said, no, Dad left about two hours ago
28:05
Speaker 1: to go meet you.
28:05
Speaker 2: I haven't seen or heard from him since now.
28:08
Speaker 1: Of course, both of them were extremely worried for Bernard,
28:11
Speaker 1: but they decided to just stay calm, that the best
28:14
Speaker 1: thing they could do right now would just be to
28:16
Speaker 1: stay put, stay at their daughter's house and wait for
28:19
Speaker 1: Bernard to eventually come back, because the only other logical
28:23
Speaker 1: place he would go would.
28:24
Speaker 2: Be his daughter's house.
28:25
Speaker 1: And so they sat at the house just kind of waiting,
28:27
Speaker 1: looking at the door, waiting for him to come in.
28:30
Speaker 1: But he didn't, and by eight pm, six hours after
28:33
Speaker 1: anybody had last seen Bernard, he still had not shown up.
28:36
Speaker 1: They couldn't get in touch with him, and so Angela
28:39
Speaker 1: called the police and reported him missing. Immediately, the police
28:42
Speaker 1: contacted the Westfield Center mall security team and said, hey,
28:45
Speaker 1: you know, we're looking for the sky and they went
28:48
Speaker 1: right down to the food court where Bernard and Angela
28:51
Speaker 1: had said they were going to meet, and the mall
28:53
Speaker 1: security team walked all around, and they walked into all
28:56
Speaker 1: the nearby shops and kind of scanned the immediate vicinity
28:59
Speaker 1: near their meeting spot. But they reported back to police
29:02
Speaker 1: that there was no sign of Bernard. And they would
29:04
Speaker 1: also tell police that after reviewing their camera footage, and
29:07
Speaker 1: this mall had hundreds of cameras covering every angle inside
29:11
Speaker 1: and out, I mean everything is covered. They would tell police,
29:14
Speaker 1: you know, after reviewing the footage, we didn't see Bernard
29:17
Speaker 1: enter or exit the mall at any point today.
29:20
Speaker 2: He was not here.
29:21
Speaker 1: And so the police they take this information and they
29:23
Speaker 1: go back to Angela that night and they say, hey, look,
29:26
Speaker 1: you know, we talked to the mall and based on
29:28
Speaker 1: their security footage, they have no record of Bernard ever
29:32
Speaker 1: being in the mall. Do you have any idea where
29:34
Speaker 1: he could have gone? And Angela would say no, the
29:37
Speaker 1: only places would have been the mall or maybe at
29:39
Speaker 1: our daughter's house. This is also when Angela explained to
29:42
Speaker 1: police that her husband had early signs of dementia and
29:46
Speaker 1: so it was possible that he might have just gotten
29:48
Speaker 1: confused and he could be out on.
29:50
Speaker 2: The street somewhere.
29:51
Speaker 1: But she assured the police that her husband whenever this happened,
29:54
Speaker 1: whenever he got confused, he would just sit down and
29:57
Speaker 1: he would try to ask for help from anybody passing by,
30:00
Speaker 1: or he would just sit where he was and he
30:01
Speaker 1: would wait for his family to confind him. And so
30:04
Speaker 1: with this knowledge, the police went back out and they
30:06
Speaker 1: widened their search, and they began looking in all the
30:09
Speaker 1: areas that were within walking distance of the Westfield Center Mall.
30:12
Speaker 1: At the same time, Angela and her daughter began trying
30:16
Speaker 1: to retrace Bernard's footsteps from the daughter's home in the
30:20
Speaker 1: direction of the Westfield Center Mall to see if maybe
30:23
Speaker 1: there was something obvious along the route that might have
30:25
Speaker 1: sidetracked him and kind of led him astray, and that
30:28
Speaker 1: maybe he'd be somewhere else in those directions. But as
30:31
Speaker 1: they were walking around, there really was nothing that stood
30:34
Speaker 1: out to them, and then eventually it just got too
30:36
Speaker 1: dark out and they had to just turn it in
30:38
Speaker 1: and go back to their house and hope that the
30:41
Speaker 1: next morning when they got up, the police would have
30:43
Speaker 1: found Bernard and that he was okay. But the next morning,
30:46
Speaker 1: when they got up, the police had not found Bernard.
30:49
Speaker 2: There was no sign of him.
30:50
Speaker 1: There was no clues, nothing, and unfortunately, over the next
30:54
Speaker 1: several weeks there was no sign of Bernard. Nobody knew
30:58
Speaker 1: what happened to him. On jim January twenty seventh, so
31:01
Speaker 1: three weeks after Bernard had gone missing, a maintenance worker
31:05
Speaker 1: at the Westfield Center Mall was walking down the staff
31:08
Speaker 1: only passageway. It was basically like this tunnel with no windows,
31:12
Speaker 1: all concrete.
31:13
Speaker 2: They kind of looped.
31:14
Speaker 1: Around the outside of the mall to help workers get
31:17
Speaker 1: to and from certain locations in the building. He's walking
31:20
Speaker 1: down this passageway when he looks down this one hallway
31:23
Speaker 1: that was very rarely used, and he sees at the
31:26
Speaker 1: end of it barely lit up from the lights inside.
31:29
Speaker 1: There looks to be some equipment kind of propped up
31:31
Speaker 1: against the wall, and he's thinking to himself, there's no
31:34
Speaker 1: reason someone would leave their equipment at the end of
31:36
Speaker 1: this very rarely used hallway. Didn't make any sense, and
31:40
Speaker 1: so he decided to walk down and see whose equipment
31:42
Speaker 1: it was. And so he's making his way down and
31:44
Speaker 1: he's getting closer and closer, and he still can't quite
31:46
Speaker 1: figure out what it is. The lighting's not great. But
31:48
Speaker 1: when he gets close enough to see what it is.
31:50
Speaker 1: He stops where he is, He turns around, and he
31:53
Speaker 1: runs back down the hallway. He finds the nearest exit.
31:55
Speaker 1: He goes outside, and he calls the police. Back on
31:58
Speaker 1: January sixth, on the day that Bernard and Angelo were
32:00
Speaker 1: supposed to meet up for lunch, Bernard did leave his
32:03
Speaker 1: daughter's house and he walked straight to the mall and
32:07
Speaker 1: he got there. He arrived at the Westfield Center mall
32:09
Speaker 1: and was picked up on camera walking into their food court.
32:13
Speaker 2: But the staff at the.
32:15
Speaker 1: Mall who reviewed the footage for police, they only looked
32:18
Speaker 1: at a handful of cameras.
32:19
Speaker 2: There's hundreds of cameras.
32:21
Speaker 1: They only looked at a couple, and so they missed
32:23
Speaker 1: this crucial footage of Bernard, And what the footage would
32:27
Speaker 1: have shown them was Bernard making his way into the
32:30
Speaker 1: food court ahead of Angela. Angela's nowhere to be found,
32:33
Speaker 1: and Bernard instead of sitting down at their meeting spot
32:36
Speaker 1: in front of this restaurant, Bernard suddenly looks like he's confused,
32:40
Speaker 1: and he turns and he walks to this emergency exit door.
32:43
Speaker 1: He presses it in, he steps inside and the door
32:46
Speaker 1: shuts behind him. Now the Westfield Center Mall is not
32:49
Speaker 1: your average mall.
32:50
Speaker 2: It is massive.
32:51
Speaker 1: There are six floors to it, nearly three hundred shops
32:54
Speaker 1: and restaurants. But what truly makes it massive is something
32:58
Speaker 1: that the public doesn't use, and that is behind staff
33:02
Speaker 1: only doors and emergency exit doors like the one Bernard
33:06
Speaker 1: had just gone through, are nearly eight miles of windowless, concrete,
33:11
Speaker 1: narrow stairwells and tunnels that loop all around the outside
33:15
Speaker 1: of the building. And once Bernard had gone through that
33:18
Speaker 1: emergency exit door and that door had shut and locked
33:21
Speaker 1: behind him, the only way for him to return to
33:24
Speaker 1: the food court and meet his wife would be if
33:26
Speaker 1: he completely exited the mall and looped all the way
33:29
Speaker 1: back around. But in order to exit the mall from
33:32
Speaker 1: where he just entered, he would need to go to
33:35
Speaker 1: a very specific exterior fire exit door that was several
33:39
Speaker 1: floors below him, and to get to it required following
33:43
Speaker 1: this very confusing signage on the walls, And so if
33:46
Speaker 1: you did it correctly, you would basically go down the hallway,
33:49
Speaker 1: find this particular stairwell, you'd go down a couple of levels,
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Speaker 1: and then at some point, without really any signage, you
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Speaker 1: would get to the appropriate floor, and you'd go down
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Speaker 1: the hallway into this maze of more hallways, and then
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Speaker 1: finally you'd reach this kind of non descript exit door
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Speaker 1: and that would be your exit. Finding your way from
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Speaker 1: where Bernard entered all the way to the exit of
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Speaker 1: the mall would be challenging for someone thinking clearly, and
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Speaker 1: clearly Bernard was not. Bernard was confused and likely really
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Speaker 1: didn't understand where he was or what he was doing,
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Speaker 1: or why he was there, and so he did not
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Speaker 1: follow these directions. Instead, he just began wandering down the hallway,
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Speaker 1: and he would have immediately passed the one stairwell that
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Speaker 1: would have very circuitously brought him down, but out of
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Speaker 1: the building, he passed that stairwell, and he just kept
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Speaker 1: on walking, and eventually he walked into this staff only area,
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Speaker 1: which was even more confusing because there was no signs
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Speaker 1: telling him where to go, and virtually every door he
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Speaker 1: encountered would have been locked. And so as Bernard wandered
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Speaker 1: through this concrete maze and got more and more mixed
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Speaker 1: up and confused, he most likely began yelling out for help,
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Speaker 1: but his sound could not have penetrated the walls, which
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Speaker 1: means the only people who could have heard his cries
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Speaker 1: would have been people inside the hallway with him. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: this section of tunnels that Bernard had found himself in
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Speaker 1: was rarely, if ever used by any.
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Speaker 2: Of the staff.
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Speaker 1: And to make matters worse, the mall security guards were
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Speaker 1: supposed to come in and do regular checks of all
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Speaker 1: these eight miles of tunnels and stairwells, specifically to see
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Speaker 1: if people got lost in them, But over time the
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Speaker 1: security guards kind of stopped doing that, and there were
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Speaker 1: no security cameras inside of this particular segment of tunnels
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Speaker 1: that Bernard found himself in, and there was no cell
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Speaker 1: phone reception, so had he tried calling anyone, it wouldn't
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Speaker 1: have worked.
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Speaker 2: And so truly Bernard was on his own.
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Speaker 1: And so after several hours or days of Bernard aimlessly
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Speaker 1: wandering around this maze, hitting dead end after dead end,
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Speaker 1: and reaching locked door after locked door, Bernard at some
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Speaker 1: point turned a corner and looked down at the end
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Speaker 1: of a hallway and he saw there was a chair
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Speaker 1: up against the side of the wall, and, like he
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Speaker 1: was programmed to do anytime he got confused, he rushed
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Speaker 1: over to it and he sat down, and he began
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Speaker 1: waiting for a passerby to help him or his family
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Speaker 1: to find him, but unfortunately help never came and he
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Speaker 1: would eventually pass away on that chair. On January twenty seventh,
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Speaker 1: that maintenance worker he discovered Bernard's body. Following his death,
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Speaker 1: the Westfield Center Mall came out and said they made
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