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Top 3 IMPOSSIBLE places people were found Missing 411 (Part 19) · Crime and Horror

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Speaker 1: Every year, hundreds of people go missing under baffling conditions
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Speaker 1: inside the woods of North America. I'm talking about people
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Speaker 1: being right in front of someone and then in a
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Speaker 1: second they're gone and they're never found again, or somebody
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Speaker 1: goes missing and then they're found again, but in a
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Speaker 1: location that's impossible to get to. One former police detective
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Speaker 1: named David Plaitis has investigated thousands of these strange disappearances,
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Speaker 1: and he documents what he finds in his incredible book
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Speaker 1: series called Missing four one one. Today we're going to
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Speaker 1: look at three of his cases that even amongst strange disappearances,
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Speaker 1: these stand out as particularly bizarre.
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Speaker 2: today's stories.
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Speaker 1: In the evening hours of January twelfth, twenty sixteen, eighteen
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Speaker 1: year old Dylan Parker was attending a party in his hometown.
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Speaker 2: Of Osborne, Idaho.
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Speaker 1: Towards the end of the night, Dylan decided he wanted
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Speaker 1: to leave the party, but it was snowing and cold outside,
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Speaker 1: so he called his mom and he asked her if
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Speaker 1: she would come pick him up at the gas station
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Speaker 1: just down the road from the house he was at.
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Speaker 1: His mother would say it was obvious Dylan had been
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Speaker 1: drinking because he was slurring his words, but at the time,
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Speaker 1: even though she was upset about it because he was underage,
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Speaker 1: she thought, you know what, it's cold, it's snowing. I
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Speaker 1: just want to get my kid home safe and we'll
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Speaker 1: deal with this tomorrow. So she agreed to pick him up.
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Speaker 1: She hopped in the car and began driving to this
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Speaker 1: gas station, and as she's driving, she gets another call.
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Speaker 2: From her son.
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Speaker 1: This time he sounds totally panicked and scared, and he's asking.
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Speaker 2: His mom, you know where are you? Where are you?
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Speaker 1: Mom, and she's telling him to be there in a minute.
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Speaker 2: I'm just down the road. Calm down, I'll be there
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Speaker 2: in a minute. And then he hung up.
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Speaker 1: When she got to the gas station, he wasn't there.
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Speaker 1: When she tried calling him back, his phone was off.
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Speaker 1: She got out of the car and went into the
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Speaker 1: gas station and asked if they had seen her son,
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Speaker 1: and they said they hadn't. She got back in the
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Speaker 1: car and she drove around for about thirty minutes yelling
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Speaker 1: for her son, but there was no sign of him.
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Speaker 2: She still couldn't get in touch with him.
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Speaker 1: His phone was still off, and she just had this
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Speaker 1: bad feeling that something had happened to him, so she
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Speaker 1: called the police. The police conducted a thorough search that
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Speaker 1: started with the house Dylan had been at for this party.
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Speaker 1: They interviewed the people who were there and everybody said
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Speaker 1: Dylan seemed fine and he just left.
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Speaker 2: He said he was getting picked up by his mom.
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Speaker 1: But as they looked around town, they just could not
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Speaker 1: find any sign of him. Ten days later, Dylan's body
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Speaker 1: was found in an area nobody was searching. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he was found by accident by two people that crashed
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Speaker 1: their ATVs in the middle of the night and then
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Speaker 1: went back in the daytime the next day to retrieve
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Speaker 1: their ATVs, and that's when they found Dylan's body. He
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Speaker 1: was located outside of town, high up a hill in
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Speaker 1: a dense forest, which in order to get there, he
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Speaker 1: would have had to walk the opposite direction of the
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Speaker 1: gas station. Now, toxicology reports showed Dylan had been under
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Speaker 1: the influence of alcohol, but this was his hometown.
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Speaker 2: He certainly knew where the.
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Speaker 1: Gas station was, and he would have known he was
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Speaker 1: walking in the complete wrong direction, especially when you consider
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Speaker 1: walking towards the gas station was like walking towards the
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Speaker 1: center of town. There was lots of lights, lots of
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Speaker 1: indication you're going in the right direction. To walk in
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Speaker 1: the other direction towards that hill where he was found
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Speaker 1: would have been like walking towards darkness, where there's no lights,
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Speaker 1: there's no sign of town.
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Speaker 2: It's obviously the wrong direction.
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Speaker 1: But the case gets even stranger because on the day
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Speaker 1: Dylan went missing, there was a lot of snow on
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Speaker 1: the ground, which meant people would have made tracks, and
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Speaker 1: from the time Dylan went missing until he was found,
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Speaker 1: it didn't snow and the temperature did not heat up
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Speaker 1: enough to melt the snow, so in theory, any tracks
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Speaker 1: Dylan would have made, they would still be there when
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Speaker 1: he was found.
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Speaker 2: But where Dylan was found, there.
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Speaker 1: Were no tracks anywhere near him, no footprints, no tire tracks, nothing.
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Speaker 1: It was as if someone had him out of the sky.
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Speaker 1: Another strange element of this case is Dylan was found
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Speaker 1: without pants and without boots on, and so you would
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Speaker 1: think for him to make it all the way up
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Speaker 1: to this spot on the hillside through kind of rough, rocky,
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Speaker 1: snowy terrain through a forest that you would expect his
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Speaker 1: socks to be totally ruined and his feet to potentially
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Speaker 1: be cut up. But his socks were clean and his
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Speaker 1: feet were uninjured. This led investigators to believe Dylan must
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Speaker 1: have somehow made his way to that spot on the
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Speaker 1: hillside in that forest without leaving any tracks, and then
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Speaker 1: once he was there, he removed his pants and his boots,
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Speaker 1: except dozens of police officers and sniffer dogs were never
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Speaker 1: able to find those pants and boots, despite the fact
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Speaker 1: they should, in theory, be in that immediate area where.
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Speaker 2: He took them off.
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Speaker 1: While he determined Dylan's cause of death to be hypothermia,
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Speaker 1: the deputy coroner, David Roos, was convinced there was something
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Speaker 1: off about this case.
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Speaker 2: After local authorities came.
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Speaker 1: Out and said Dylan's death was an accident, David became
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Speaker 1: very vocal in the media saying he disagreed and he
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Speaker 1: thought Dylan had been attacked. But the county never reinvestigated
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Speaker 1: Dylan's case, and in fact, they went on to fire
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Speaker 1: David Bruce, the coroner, saying he was no longer qualified
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Speaker 1: to do the job. David says they fired him to
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Speaker 1: keep him quiet. As a result, we.
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Speaker 2: May never know the truth about what happened to Dylan.
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Speaker 1: Dustin'sself was born and raised in Piedmont, Oklahoma, which is
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Speaker 1: a small community just northwest of Oklahoma City. Growing up,
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Speaker 1: Dustin had always been kind of a mediocre performer with
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Speaker 1: SOSO grades, didn't take things too seriously. But in his
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Speaker 1: senior year he discovered weightlifting and it seemed to give
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Speaker 1: his life a much needed sense of purpose and it
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Speaker 1: really kind of helped him organize all aspects of his life.
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Speaker 1: So by the time he was graduating, he was not
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Speaker 1: only in great physical shape, he had also managed to
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Speaker 1: raise all of his grades up significantly, and he seemed
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Speaker 1: to be on a path to success. But interestingly, after
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Speaker 1: high school, he didn't pursue higher education, he didn't go
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Speaker 1: get a job, he didn't try to spend more time
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Speaker 1: with friends and family. Instead, he decided he wanted to
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Speaker 1: go live in the wild. Family believes this was due
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Speaker 1: to his obsession with the Hollywood film Into the Wild,
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Speaker 1: which is about the true story of Christopher McCandless, who
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Speaker 1: gives up a promising career to go live off in
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Speaker 1: the wilds of Alaska. Christopher would ultimately die in the
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Speaker 1: wilds of Alaska after eating a poisonous plant, or some
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Speaker 1: say he died from starvation. So about a year after
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Speaker 1: Dustin's high school graduation, he was nineteen years old. It
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Speaker 1: was March of twenty thirteen. He finally felt like he
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Speaker 1: was ready to go live out the stream of living
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Speaker 1: in the wild, and so he told his family he
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Speaker 1: was going to go on this cross country road trip,
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Speaker 1: stopping at different points along the way, living out in
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Speaker 1: the woods. His family knew he was really fixated on
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Speaker 1: this and couldn't talk him out of it, and so
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Speaker 1: they ultimately accepted it and said just be really careful.
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Speaker 1: So in early March, Dustin heads out on this road trip,
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Speaker 1: and nobody hears from him until March fifteenth, when he
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Speaker 1: calls his parents and says, I'm in this tiny town
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Speaker 1: called Fields, Oregon, and I'm at a gas station. Everything's
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Speaker 1: going great, nothing to worry about. The very next day,
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Speaker 1: Dustin called his ex girlfriend and told her he was
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Speaker 1: lost on a mountain.
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Speaker 2: And ex girlfriend said she couldn't.
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Speaker 1: Really understand what he was saying, and she was actually
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Speaker 1: at the airport about to board a plane, so it
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Speaker 1: was noisy, and she stepped into a bathroom to hear
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Speaker 1: him more clearly. But even as she's hearing him, what
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Speaker 1: he was saying just wasn't making any sense. He was
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Speaker 1: talking about this mountain he was lost on, and he
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Speaker 1: was referencing that there were people that were after him,
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Speaker 1: and it was just very confusing, and before she could
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Speaker 1: get any more clarifying information from Dustin, he hung up,
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Speaker 1: and then she couldn't get back in touch with him.
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Speaker 1: So she calls Dustin's father and she tells him that
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Speaker 1: she had this really weird conversation with Dustin or he
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Speaker 1: said he's lost on this mountain, and even though I
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Speaker 1: didn't really understand what he was telling me, he sounded
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Speaker 1: really really scared. Dustin's father thanked her and then spent
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Speaker 1: the rest of the day trying to get in touch
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Speaker 1: with the son, but every time he called, it just
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Speaker 1: went straight to voicemail. The next day, when he still
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Speaker 1: hadn't heard from his son, he called the police. The
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Speaker 1: police did not have a great idea of where to
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Speaker 1: start looking for him, because Dustin did not specify to
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Speaker 1: his ex girlfriend what mountain he was actually lost on.
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Speaker 1: All they had was his last known location, which was
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Speaker 1: that gas station in Field, Oregon.
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Speaker 2: So they went to.
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Speaker 1: That gas station and he wasn't there, and they asked
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Speaker 1: the people that worked there if they remember Dustin, and
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Speaker 1: they didn't, and no one knew anything about him. And
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Speaker 1: so after that they just had to wait for more
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Speaker 1: leeds to come in because they couldn't just, you know,
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Speaker 1: search all the mountains in Oregon for Dustin. They would
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Speaker 1: never find him. A month later, after no one's heard
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Speaker 1: from Dustin, a ranch hand who was living in a
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Speaker 1: very rural section of Oregon not far from the gas
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Speaker 1: station and Fields, Oregon, discovered Dustin's truck parked precariously on
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Speaker 1: the edge of this road, inside of a canyon. It
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Speaker 1: was abandoned, but inside where Dustin's GPS, some food and
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Speaker 1: some energy drinks. His backpack that contained his sleeping bag,
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Speaker 1: and his tent were missing.
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Speaker 2: There was a comprehensive search done.
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Speaker 1: Around where the truck had been found, but after a
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Speaker 1: couple of days nothing had been found and the search
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Speaker 1: was terminated. The area around where Dustin's truck was found
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Speaker 1: was very hilly and rocky, but there weren't that many trees,
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Speaker 1: which meant if you were standing on one of the
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Speaker 1: different mountains in the area, you'd be able to very
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Speaker 1: easily look out and actually see a road. And so
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Speaker 1: the searchers were thinking to themselves, how could this guy
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Speaker 1: have gotten lost on any of these mountains, because all
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Speaker 1: he'd have to do is look over there, and there's
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Speaker 1: a road, and therefore there's help. Six months later, a
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Speaker 1: hunter was up in those mountains near where Dustin's truck
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Speaker 1: was found, and he was actually moving through one of
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Speaker 1: these small sections of aspen trees, and as he was
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Speaker 1: walking through, he thought he saw a deer, and he
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Speaker 1: was kind of stalking through these trees and he gets
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Speaker 1: to an opening where he looks down and he stops
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Speaker 1: because underneath the bush is an obviously dead man, not
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Speaker 1: wearing any clothes, who's on his hands and knees, and
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Speaker 1: it looks like his head is stuck in the ground.
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Speaker 1: When the hunter walks over to get a better look,
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Speaker 1: it looks like this guy must have pushed his head
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Speaker 1: into a hole in the ground before he succumbed to
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Speaker 1: whatever killed him.
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Speaker 2: The hunter leaves and tells police. Police show up.
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Speaker 1: They search the area and they find a jacket nearby,
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Speaker 1: inside of which is a wallet that contains Dustin's ID
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Speaker 1: cards as well as Dustin's car keys.
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Speaker 2: The body was Dustin's.
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Speaker 1: Dustin was located nine miles away from where his truck
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Speaker 1: had been parked on that road, and nowhere in the
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Speaker 1: area did they find a campsite. They actually never found
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Speaker 1: his backpack that contained the tent or the sleeping bag,
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Speaker 1: so they think he never set up camp, but they
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Speaker 1: don't know where his supplies went. After Dustin's family found
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Speaker 1: out what happened to him, his father would say, I
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Speaker 1: just don't understand why he didn't seek shelter in his vehicle.
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Speaker 1: It was parked on the road. He wasn't that far away. Heck,
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Speaker 1: he could have run those nine miles. He was in
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Speaker 1: great physical shape and in theory he would have known
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Speaker 1: where he parked it, or if he didn't, he could
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Speaker 1: have just walked to the edge of the mountain and
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Speaker 1: looked out and seen the road it was parked on.
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Speaker 1: So the family just couldn't understand his decision making. Investigators
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Speaker 1: would say there was no indication Dustin was trying to
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Speaker 1: hurt himself and foul play was ruled out. So what
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Speaker 1: was it that caused Dustin to abandon his car and
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Speaker 1: walk nine miles up hill and Ditch's clothes and Ditch's
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Speaker 1: backpack that contained his tent in his sleeping bag, and
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Speaker 1: then stick his head in a hole until he died.
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Speaker 1: The only thing that could be determined was that Dustin
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Speaker 1: probably died of hypothermia, but because of the state his
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Speaker 1: body was in from decomposition, the coroner said, we don't
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Speaker 1: know for sure. So, like all the other missing four
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Speaker 1: to one one cases, were left with lots of questions
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Speaker 1: and not a lot of answers. In twenty ten, Jan
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Speaker 1: mccabee was living with her husband, Bruce, in a town
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Speaker 1: called Lima, Ohio, which is approximately eighty miles southwest of
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Speaker 1: Lake Erie. While Jan had built a successful career as
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Speaker 1: a booking agent, for musicians, bands.
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Speaker 2: And entertainers.
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Speaker 1: Her real passion was deer hunting, so on September twenty
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Speaker 1: ninth of that year, right after deer hunting season had
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Speaker 1: opened in Ohio, Jan decided to go out on a hunt.
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Speaker 1: That morning had been cold and damp and gray, but
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Speaker 1: by that afternoon, when Jan was getting ready to go,
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Speaker 1: the temperatures had risen and the sun had come out.
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Speaker 1: Jan's preferred method of hunting was to sit and watch
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Speaker 1: from a tree stand, which is a ladder that you
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Speaker 1: put in the woods that sits about fifteen feet high.
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Speaker 1: She would sit up there with her bow and arrow
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Speaker 1: and wait to take a shot when a.
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Speaker 2: Deer came by.
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Speaker 1: Around five pm that day, she told Bruce she was leaving,
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Speaker 1: and she made it to a tree stand by about
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Speaker 1: five thirty. The forest she was going to be hunting
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Speaker 1: in was one she was very familiar with, and it
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Speaker 1: was not very remote.
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Speaker 2: There were a couple houses just outside the woods.
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Speaker 1: There was some agricultural areas, and her nephew actually went
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Speaker 1: to high school just a mile north of these woods.
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Speaker 1: But from the tree stand where she was sitting, all
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Speaker 1: she could see around her was trees. Shortly after Jan
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Speaker 1: sat down she started texting with one of her friends
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Speaker 1: on her BlackBerry, and periodically.
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Speaker 2: She poke her head up and look for deer. There
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Speaker 2: weren't any, and then she'd go back to texting.
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Speaker 1: The whole time this is happening, Jan can hear birds
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Speaker 1: and crickets and squirrels and all the sounds of the
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Speaker 1: forest all around her. A little after six pm, her
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Speaker 1: texting conversation with her friend reached a natural conclusion, and
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Speaker 1: so she went back to just kind of sitting in
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Speaker 1: the tree stand looking around. By about six twenty pm,
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Speaker 1: she still hadn't seen any deer and she was starting
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Speaker 1: to get bored.
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Speaker 2: So she decided she would take a selfie.
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Speaker 1: She picked up her BlackBerry, she took the selfie, and
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Speaker 1: as soon as she was done, she became aware that
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Speaker 1: the forest had suddenly gone completely quiet. No more squirrels,
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Speaker 1: the more birds, the more crickets, just complete silence. And
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Speaker 1: she knew as a hunter, the only time this happened
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Speaker 1: was when a large predator was in the area and
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Speaker 1: all the other animals went quiet. But Jan would later say,
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Speaker 1: there was just something different about this silence. It was
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Speaker 1: so sudden and so complete that it scared her, and
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Speaker 1: she went up sending another text message to that friend
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Speaker 1: she'd been texting earlier that said, the woods just went
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Speaker 1: completely silent, very odd. As soon as Jan hit stand
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Speaker 1: on that text message and lowered her phone, she immediately
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Speaker 1: became aware of something about twenty feet away in the
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Speaker 1: tree that was right across from her, and she said
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Speaker 1: it was the most unusual and terrifying thing she had
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Speaker 1: ever seen. Moving left to right through the branches, was
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Speaker 1: this thing that she described as like a visual distortion.
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Speaker 1: She said, it was like looking across pavement on a
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Speaker 1: really hot day and seeing that mirage, except this one
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Speaker 1: looked like it was alive, like it had mass, like
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Speaker 1: it was a see through person that had been wrapped
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Speaker 1: in saran wrapped. And so Jan thinks it's a floater
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Speaker 1: in her eyes, and so she rubs her eyes, and
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Speaker 1: when she looks up, this thing has now moved down
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Speaker 1: a branch closer to her and has stopped like it's
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Speaker 1: perched on the branch staring at her. And Jan's horrified,
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Speaker 1: but she knows she wants to document it, so she
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Speaker 1: grabs her phone and she raises it up and she
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Speaker 1: takes a picture on her BlackBerry right as this thing
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Speaker 1: kind of disappears behind the tree and vanishes. Just seconds
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Speaker 1: after this thing disappeared, all the sounds in the forest
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Speaker 1: came back, the birds, the squirrels, the crickets. It was
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Speaker 1: all back to normal. But jan was really shaken up
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Speaker 1: because she just could not make sense of what she
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Speaker 1: just saw. So she just continued to stare in the
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Speaker 1: general direction of where this thing was for several minutes
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Speaker 1: until finally she felt like it was safe again, at
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Speaker 1: which point she brought her phone up to look at
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Speaker 1: the pictures she had taken. When she looked at it,
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Speaker 1: it looked like a blurry mess, and so she thought, up,
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Speaker 1: I blew it. I put my hand over it, or
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Speaker 1: my hair got in the way.
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Speaker 2: Of it or something.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, she's thinking to herself, but
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Speaker 1: my hair didn't get in the way of it. And
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Speaker 1: I very clearly held it out in front of me,
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Speaker 1: and know that I was looking at my phone when
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Speaker 1: I took it, and I had a clear shot of
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Speaker 1: this thing. So I don't really understand how this photo
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Speaker 1: got so messed up. But after looking at the picture
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Speaker 1: for a little while, she started to kind of laugh
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Speaker 1: at herself. You know, the idea that she had just
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Speaker 1: seen a saran wrapped person running through the treetops. You know,
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Speaker 1: she just felt like that that didn't happen. It must
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Speaker 1: have been in my head. And as for this picture,
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Speaker 1: I probably just blocked the lens and that's it. That night,
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Speaker 1: when Jane got back to her house, she did not
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Speaker 1: tell her husband, Bruce, about what happened to her in
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Speaker 1: the tree stand, because again she's telling herself it was
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Speaker 1: all in her head. They have dinner, they clean up,
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Speaker 1: they sit down in the living room and they're both
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Speaker 1: on their phones and they're just kind of scrolling through
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Speaker 1: the Internet and their emails. And at some point Bruce
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Speaker 1: reacts to something he's reading. He makes a sound, and
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Speaker 1: jan hears him and says, Oh, what are you looking at?
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Speaker 1: And he said, you know, I just got a really
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Speaker 1: interesting email from our nephew, you know, the one that
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Speaker 1: goes to school down the road. He said that today
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Speaker 1: they were outside for band practice and at some point
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Speaker 1: all of them turned to look at the forest and
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Speaker 1: there was a bright circular light that was kind of
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Speaker 1: hovering in the forest, and I guess they all stared
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Speaker 1: at it for about five or ten seconds, and then
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Speaker 1: at some point the light kind of went back into
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Speaker 1: the forest, and they didn't know what to make of it.
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Speaker 1: And I guess one of his classmates said that a
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Speaker 1: year before, the exact same thing happened, and it apparently
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Speaker 1: scared their instructors so badly that they canceled rehearsal and went.
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Speaker 2: Inside because of it.
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Speaker 1: As Jan is listening to her husband read this email,
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Speaker 1: she's sitting up and her heart is racing, and as
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Speaker 1: soon as he finishes, she says, what time did he
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Speaker 1: say that happened? Bruce picked up how intensely she was
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Speaker 1: asking him, and so he looked at the email, looked
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Speaker 1: back at his wife and was like, it was between
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Speaker 1: seven fifty and eight. Why. At this point, Jan revealed
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Speaker 1: everything that had happened to her while she was hunting,
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Speaker 1: you know, seeing that visual distortion in the trees that
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Speaker 1: looked like a figure of some kind. And she would
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Speaker 1: tell him that the forest she was in was the
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Speaker 1: same one their nephew was claiming to have seen this
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Speaker 1: circular light floating inside of She told him she tried
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Speaker 1: to take a picture of the thing she saw, but
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Speaker 1: the picture.
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Speaker 2: Didn't come out.
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Speaker 1: But her husband, who was an optical physicist and therefore
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Speaker 1: an expert at analyzing a picture, said here, let me
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Speaker 1: take a look at it. As soon as he looked
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Speaker 1: at the image, the first thing he asked her was, well,
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Speaker 1: did your hair get in.
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Speaker 2: Front of the lens?
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Speaker 1: And she said no, I was holding it about a
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Speaker 1: foot away from my head, and my hair was in
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Speaker 1: a ponytail in a ball cap, so that can't be
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Speaker 1: my hair. And so he looked at it again and
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Speaker 1: he asked her, well, did you put your finger over
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Speaker 1: the lens?
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Speaker 2: Maybe?
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Speaker 1: And she said, yeah, I might have. I don't think
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Speaker 1: I did, but it's certainly possible. And so, not really
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Speaker 1: thinking much of this picture, he decides, before giving the
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Speaker 1: phone back, to just check the resolution of the image,
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Speaker 1: because whenever he would examine a picture, that was something
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Speaker 1: he would do. And he discovered an anomaly. It turns
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Speaker 1: out Jan's BlackBerry was only capable of taking pictures in
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Speaker 1: three distinct resolutions. Basically, the size of the image could
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Speaker 1: only come in small, medium, or large, and this picture
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Speaker 1: she had taken of this thing she saw in the
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Speaker 1: trees was a resolution size that was not small, medium,
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Speaker 1: or large. It was some random size that the phone
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Speaker 1: was actually not capable of producing. And so he asked
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Speaker 1: his wife, like did you manipulate your resolution settings?
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Speaker 2: And she said, no, I don't even know how to
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Speaker 2: do that.
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Speaker 1: So Bruce looked at the other couple of pictures she
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Speaker 1: had taken that day, and all of those fell into
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Speaker 1: the small, medium or large resolution size. It was just
17:43
Speaker 1: this one picture that was a total anomaly. And so
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Speaker 1: Bruce was suddenly really intrigued by this image and by
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Speaker 1: his wife's story, and so he continued to study the image,
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Speaker 1: and he kept asking his wife questions about, you know,
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Speaker 1: how she was positioned in the tree stand, and where
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Speaker 1: the sun was, and how far away this thing was,
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Speaker 1: and everything about the whole layout. And eventually Bruce started
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Speaker 1: conducting experiments to see if he could duplicate this image
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Speaker 1: his wife had created, and he got pretty scientific about it.
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Speaker 1: Then he could not duplicate it ultimately, because Bruce trusts
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Speaker 1: his wife did not alter the photo in any way,
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Speaker 1: and he trusts his wife as being truthful about what
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Speaker 1: she experienced in the tree stand, you know, what she saw,
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Speaker 1: And based on his years of being an optical physicist,
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Speaker 1: Bruce believes whatever was in the trees.
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Speaker 2: Distorted this image.
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Speaker 1: That even if she had put her finger over the lens,
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Speaker 1: which he doesn't think she did, and she doesn't think
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Speaker 1: she did.
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Speaker 2: The picture resolution was altered.
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Speaker 1: In such a way that something had to have an
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Speaker 1: effect on it.
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Speaker 2: There was a third party effect on this picture.
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Speaker 1: If you're interested in reading all of Bruce's scientific findings
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Speaker 1: about this picture, I have included his write up that
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Speaker 1: he posted online in the sources below.
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