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This found footage will HAUNT your dreams - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. At six thirty pm on
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  Speaker 1: May fourteenth, nineteen fifty five, a twenty four year old
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  Speaker 1: man named Donald Drew stood next to his friend, twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight year old Marie Anderson, on the shore of a
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  Speaker 1: natural spring in the state of Georgia. The spring was
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  Speaker 1: called Radium Springs because literally there was radium in the water.
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  Speaker 1: Radium is a naturally occurring, highly radioactive metallic element, but
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  Speaker 1: there were such low levels of it in the water
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  Speaker 1: that it wasn't really a hazard. However, the radium did
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  Speaker 1: have an effect on the water. It made it practically
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  Speaker 1: neon blue, and so it was totally mesmerizing. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you look at this thing, and you know there's something
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  Speaker 1: different about the spring.
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  Speaker 2: Also, this spring was incredibly deep.
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  Speaker 1: So Donald and Murray were both members of the US Navy,
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  Speaker 1: and so naturally they spent a lot of time, you know,
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  Speaker 1: in and around water, because that's what the Navy does,
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  Speaker 1: they work in and around water. But ironically, it was
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  Speaker 1: actually when Donald and Murray were not working that they
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  Speaker 1: spent the most amount of time in the water because
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  Speaker 1: in their off.
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  Speaker 2: Time they were recreational scuba divers.
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  Speaker 1: Except back in nineteen fifty five, recreational scuba diving was
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  Speaker 1: totally not safe. And that was because, you know, underwater
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  Speaker 1: diving certainly existed at the time. I mean institutions like
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  Speaker 1: the Navy, they were prolific divers, but civilians did not
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  Speaker 1: really dive on their own. And so as a result,
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  Speaker 1: if you wanted to recreationally scuba dive, well you didn't
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  Speaker 1: really have access to good equipment or even proper equipment.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there just wasn't anything available to you. And
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  Speaker 1: so for people like Donald and Murray who did want
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  Speaker 1: to go explore the underwater, abyss on their own. They
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  Speaker 1: had to literally make their own diving equipment, like their
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  Speaker 1: own oxygen tanks and their own flashlights and goggles, I
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  Speaker 1: mean all of it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it was amateur.
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  Speaker 1: It was homemade equipment, and so that's what made it
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  Speaker 1: really dangerous. On top of when you're underwater diving, as
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  Speaker 1: I've done myself, a lot of things can go wrong,
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  Speaker 1: and so that's also dangerous, and so the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it's asking for problems. But for Donald and Murray,
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  Speaker 1: it was actually the danger associated with recreational diving that
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  Speaker 1: made it so appealing.
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  Speaker 2: They liked the idea that other people.
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  Speaker 1: Were scared to go underwater, you know, with their DIY equipment.
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  Speaker 2: You know. For Donald and Murray, they loved it.
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  Speaker 1: They got a thrill out of it, and on top
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  Speaker 1: of that, they kind of felt like explorers. They got
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  Speaker 1: to go to places underwater where literally nobody else had
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  Speaker 1: gone before. In fact, they had already gone to other
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  Speaker 1: locations and mapped out you know, tunnels and underwater cave
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  Speaker 1: systems and all these different things that literally nobody else
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  Speaker 1: had done before, and they loved it. And today was
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  Speaker 1: going to be no different because there were sections in
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  Speaker 1: radium springs that nobody had mapped, and they were going
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  Speaker 1: to go down there and see it for themselves. So
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  Speaker 1: after the two men looked at each other and nodded
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of gave the signal it was time
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  Speaker 1: to begin to dive. They donned their amateur equipment, you know,
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  Speaker 1: their oxygen tanks and their goggles and their flippers, and
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  Speaker 1: then they walked into the neon.
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  Speaker 2: Blue water and submerged.
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  Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Donald and Murray had traveled about
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  Speaker 1: seventy feet straight down the water column and at this point,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the light is really fading.
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  Speaker 2: They can't really see too well.
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  Speaker 1: They did have flashlights that they had rigged up that
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  Speaker 1: they had water, but at this point, down seventy feet,
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  Speaker 1: it's getting pretty dark. But right in front of them,
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  Speaker 1: off to the side was this huge entrance, this underwater
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  Speaker 1: tunnel entrance, and this was actually a well known cavern
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  Speaker 1: like this is actually where other recreational divers would go
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  Speaker 1: to if they went to Radium Springs.
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  Speaker 2: It was this cavern.
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  Speaker 1: But while the entrance to the cavern had been sort
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  Speaker 1: of mapped out and searched, there were all these little
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  Speaker 1: spidery offshoots. Once you got into this cavern that had
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  Speaker 1: not been explored, and so what Donald and Murray were
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  Speaker 1: going to do is go into the cavern and then
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  Speaker 1: basically start you know, splintering.
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  Speaker 2: Off and seeing what.
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  Speaker 1: Else was in there and mapping it out. Now, as
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  Speaker 1: much as Donald and Murray did like the sort of
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  Speaker 1: risks associated with this activity, they weren't completely reckless. They
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  Speaker 1: had attached a dive line when they had gone into
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  Speaker 1: the spring that they attached to the surface and they
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  Speaker 1: fed down with them. It's a two hundred foot line
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  Speaker 1: and they carried it with them. The lead diver would
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  Speaker 1: basically unspool as they went. The two divers would be
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  Speaker 1: right next to each other and they'd be holding onto
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  Speaker 1: this line. And so when they would go into this cavern,
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  Speaker 1: if for some reason they got turned around or you know,
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  Speaker 1: they got you know, totally confused, whatever it was, they
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  Speaker 1: could always just follow their line back out of the cavern,
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  Speaker 1: back up to the surface. This was not like rocket science.
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  Speaker 1: This is something that divers today still do. So using
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  Speaker 1: a dive line very common practice, and Donald and Murray
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  Speaker 1: were doing just that.
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  Speaker 2: And so they went into this cavern.
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  Speaker 1: They got their dive lines spooling out, and everything is
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  Speaker 1: totally fine. But once they were inside of this cavern,
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  Speaker 1: all the light completely went away. I mean, the cavern
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  Speaker 1: was relatively spacious, but you know, the light is coming
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  Speaker 1: straight down and this tunnel entrance is basically, you know, horizontal,
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  Speaker 1: and so once they're inside of this cavern, it's utterly
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  Speaker 1: pitch black.
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  Speaker 2: But Donald and Murray have.
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  Speaker 1: Dove other underwater cave systems. They knew going in how
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  Speaker 1: dark this cave system was going to be. They had
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  Speaker 1: their flashlights, you know that they had jerry rigged to
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  Speaker 1: be waterproof, and they're holding onto their line and they're
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  Speaker 1: going into this cavern looking for their first offshoot. But
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  Speaker 1: as they're going into this cavern, there's all this silt,
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  Speaker 1: all this mud that's kind of caked to the walls
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  Speaker 1: and the floor that began getting kicked up from their
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  Speaker 1: flippers and bumping into it. And before long, because of
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  Speaker 1: the silt and the lack of light, they could basically
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  Speaker 1: only see maybe six inches in front of them. Like
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  Speaker 1: even shining their light, all they'd see is all the silt,
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  Speaker 1: and so very quickly the visibility basically fell to zero.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, again they're going in knowing this is
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  Speaker 1: the environment. They're going into They're confident, they're cool, they're
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  Speaker 1: moving along. But as the two divers were continuing through
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  Speaker 1: the cavern, you know, getting deeper and deeper, and it's
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  Speaker 1: starting to get more and more restrictive, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: deeper they go. They were about to go into this
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  Speaker 1: offshoot when Donald suddenly started seeing all these air bubbles
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  Speaker 1: coming up against them. And now he can't quite see
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  Speaker 1: where they're coming from. But there's only one place that
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  Speaker 1: an air bubble could be emerging from, and that's from
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  Speaker 1: his oxygen tank. And so clearly there's some sort of
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  Speaker 1: issue he can't see because it's so dark. He also
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  Speaker 1: had as homemade equipment, and so the risk of catastrophic
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  Speaker 1: failure is pretty high with his equipment. And so he
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  Speaker 1: begins trying to figure out where this leak is coming from,
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  Speaker 1: you know, checking his equipment, trying to make it stop.
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  Speaker 2: But he can't.
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  Speaker 1: He can't really communicate to Walter, who's got the spool
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  Speaker 1: of diveline, who's continuing straightforward into this offshoot. He can't
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  Speaker 1: quite tell him what's going on. They can't actually speak
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  Speaker 1: to each other.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: It's pitch black, there's silt, it's sort of you know,
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  Speaker 1: claustrophobic and stressful, and so ultimately Donald grabs Murray and
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  Speaker 1: just tries to shake him and sort of signal, hey,
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  Speaker 1: I got an issue here. But he had no way
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  Speaker 1: of knowing if Murray actually understood. But Donald, he knew
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  Speaker 1: he just had to get out of there. He had
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  Speaker 1: to go back to the surface and fix his issue
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  Speaker 1: before it got way worse. And so even though he
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  Speaker 1: knew he was kind of leaving his buddy here, he's thinking, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Murray's got the dive line, he's experienced.
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  Speaker 2: I just grabbed him. Everything's going to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: And Donald turned around, you know, kicked up more silt
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  Speaker 1: and held onto that dive line, but now followed it
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  Speaker 1: back out of the cavern and back up to the surface.
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  Speaker 2: And when he got to the surface, he took a
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  Speaker 2: big breath. He was saved.
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  Speaker 1: You know. He checked his equipment and realized, you know,
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  Speaker 1: wherever the issue was, and he was actually able to
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  Speaker 1: fix the issue. And so before long, after only being
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  Speaker 1: on the surface for a couple of minutes, he had
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  Speaker 1: put his equipment back on. He was back in the
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  Speaker 1: water and following the dive line back down towards the cavern.
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  Speaker 1: As Donald began his descent down towards that cavern, seventy
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  Speaker 1: feet down, the whole time, he's holding onto the divelne,
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  Speaker 1: you know, making sure he doesn't lose that. But really
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  Speaker 1: what he's focused on is checking his equipment because as
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  Speaker 1: he's going down, he's got basic visibility here. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it's not going to be like in the cavern where
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  Speaker 1: you can't see anything. And so as he's going down,
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  Speaker 1: he's checking his equipment and just making sure that there
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  Speaker 1: isn't a leak. And by the time he got all
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  Speaker 1: the way down seventy feet and the dive line turned
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  Speaker 1: and went into that cavern, Donald was feeling pretty good
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  Speaker 1: that his equipment was good, it was not malfunctioning, and
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  Speaker 1: it was safe to go back into the cavern with Murray.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what he does.
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  Speaker 1: He's got his flashlight in one hand, he's got the
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  Speaker 1: dive line in the other, and he's now looking straight
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  Speaker 1: into this dark opening of this cavern and in Donald
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  Speaker 1: goes the whole time holding onto that divelne, and pretty
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  Speaker 1: much immediately once inside the cavern, the flashlight became useless
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  Speaker 1: because again the silt's still kicked up there's no current
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  Speaker 1: running through this cavern, so the silt is not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: But either way, you know, Donald knew what he was doing.
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  Speaker 1: He was going straight in there to connect with Murray,
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  Speaker 1: then continue this dive and see what else is in here,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, map it out for other divers, and
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  Speaker 1: so into the cavern he goes. He's holding the divelne
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  Speaker 1: in one hand, he's got his flashlight, and he's.
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  Speaker 2: Going deeper and deeper into this cavern.
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  Speaker 1: And the whole time he's expecting at any moment he's
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  Speaker 1: just going to bump into Murray. But he just keeps
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  Speaker 1: going and going deeper and deeper into the system. The
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  Speaker 1: walls are getting tighter and tighter around him, and eventually
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  Speaker 1: he reaches the very end of the diveline two hundred
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  Speaker 1: feet at this point, deep into this cavern, and there's
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  Speaker 1: no Murray. Murray's gone now Donald, He's looking around. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: it's total darkness. All he's got is this flashlight, which
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  Speaker 1: basically just illuminates the silt that's been kicked up all
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  Speaker 1: around him. But where he is at this exact moment,
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  Speaker 1: the silt wasn't too bad. It was just like this
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  Speaker 1: abyss all around him. It's totally black, there's nothing around him,
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  Speaker 1: and in a sudden panic, Donald thinks, oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: I'm so far into this cavern. I haven't found Murray.
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  Speaker 1: Like something's happened to him. He's run out of air
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  Speaker 1: or he's gotten lost, Like how could he have let
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  Speaker 1: go of the dive line.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: And so Donald immediately just starts going down to the
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  Speaker 1: bottom of the cave and searching the ground, thinking that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe Murray got to this point and passed
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  Speaker 1: out and sunk to the bottom. But he gets to
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  Speaker 1: the bottom of the cave, there's nothing there. He starts
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  Speaker 1: feeling the tunnels. There's nothing. And at this point he's
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  Speaker 1: kicked up even more silt and so like he really
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  Speaker 1: can't see anything. And he's thinking, it took me a
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  Speaker 1: while to get in here, and I'm running low on
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  Speaker 1: oxygen right now, Like I need to get help immediately
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  Speaker 1: because Murray he's gonna run out of time really quickly here.
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  Speaker 1: And so Donald he turns around and holding onto this divelne,
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  Speaker 1: he pulls himself out of the cavern.
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  Speaker 2: He goes back to the surface.
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  Speaker 1: You know, some part of him was hoping that when
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  Speaker 1: he got up there, that he would just magically see
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  Speaker 1: Murray waiting for him.
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  Speaker 2: But nope, he's all alone. There's nobody here.
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  Speaker 1: And at that point Donald took off his gear any
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  Speaker 1: contacted authorities. Not long after that, two commercial divers along
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  Speaker 1: with an entire US Navy dive team arrived at Radium
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  Speaker 1: Springs and began looking for Murray. And they searched and
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  Speaker 1: they searched, and they couldn't find him until eight am
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  Speaker 1: the next morning, twelve hours after Donald had surfaced. It
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  Speaker 1: would turn out when Donald had that malfunction that caused
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  Speaker 1: him to leave the cavern and leave Murray behind and
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  Speaker 1: go to the surface and fix himself and then go
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  Speaker 1: back down again. While in that space of time that
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  Speaker 1: he was away from Murray, Murray continued to spool out
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  Speaker 1: the diveline, maybe not necessarily knowing that Donald had left
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  Speaker 1: him at this point, and Murray got all the way
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the day line two hundred feet
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  Speaker 1: and at that point in this uncharted tunnel he was in.
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  Speaker 1: Somehow or another, Murray became disconnected from the divelne.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he let go of it, maybe he bumped into something.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know, but.
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  Speaker 1: Either way, he let go of the diveline, basically right
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the divelne. And when Donald came
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  Speaker 1: back down and got to the end of that divelne
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  Speaker 1: and discovered Murray wasn't there, well, what he didn't know
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  Speaker 1: is that.
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  Speaker 2: Murray actually was just a couple of feet away.
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  Speaker 1: He was basically right above him, because that's where Murray
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  Speaker 1: was ultimately found. He had drowned literally feet away from
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  Speaker 1: the divelne, but Donald he couldn't see him, and in
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  Speaker 1: a total panic state.
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  Speaker 2: In an effort to find Murray, Donald began.
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  Speaker 1: Fumbling around, going down and rubbing up against the bottom
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  Speaker 1: and the walls, kicking up all this silt. And you
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  Speaker 1: got to figure, at this exact moment, Murray, who's very
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  Speaker 1: much alive at this point, almost certainly is right above him.
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  Speaker 1: And now his visibility, which was already terrible, He's probably
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  Speaker 1: scared to death because he's looking for this dive line
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  Speaker 1: and now the silt is just getting kicked up all
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  Speaker 1: around him. He probably knows Donald's nearby. He's swimming around
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  Speaker 1: looking for Donald, Donald's looking for Murray.
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  Speaker 2: They swim right past each other. It's absolute madness.
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  Speaker 1: But then eventually Donald just vanishes because he's going to
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  Speaker 1: find help, and Murray is left all by himself in
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  Speaker 1: total darkness, disoriented, terrified, has no idea where the dive
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  Speaker 1: line is. Stilt is making it impossible to know what
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  Speaker 1: direction he's he ben going, and so in Murray's final moments,
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  Speaker 1: he just scrambled around trying to find his way out again,
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  Speaker 1: until he eventually drowned again, just feet away from his diveline,
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  Speaker 1: the very thing that would have brought him to safety.
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  Speaker 1: On May twenty eighth, twenty twenty two, a photographer named
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  Speaker 1: April Bertucci, along with two of her friends, snuck toward
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  Speaker 1: it's this abandoned funeral home in Flint, Michigan. The funeral
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  Speaker 1: home was a big brick building right off a main
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  Speaker 1: road in the center of the city, and April and
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  Speaker 1: her two friends knew there were lots of people that
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  Speaker 1: were kind of looking in this direction and it was
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  Speaker 1: illegal to go into this property, and so very carefully
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  Speaker 1: they snuck their way towards the back door of the
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  Speaker 1: building and they saw the door was completely attached to
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  Speaker 1: its hinges. It was in good shape, appeared to be locked,
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  Speaker 1: but they thought, you know, what the heck.
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  Speaker 2: They walked up to the door, took a look around.
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  Speaker 2: April reached down, tried the handle, and it pulled right open.
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as this happened, April was psyched because
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  Speaker 1: not only was she a photographer, but she was also
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  Speaker 1: an urban explorer, which meant she would sneak in to
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  Speaker 1: places like this, abandoned buildings and other man made sites
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  Speaker 1: just to have a look around one because it was
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  Speaker 1: fun and exciting, but also because she got to use
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  Speaker 1: her photography taking cool pictures of places like this funeral home.
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  Speaker 1: And so April's friends were also into urban exploring, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as this door came open, it was like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, I can't leave. We're going to get
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  Speaker 1: to explore this legendary site. So this funeral home had
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  Speaker 1: been shut down about five years earlier because of reports
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  Speaker 1: of unsanitary conditions inside. Anonymous reporters had gone in and
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: discovered that there were literally like human remains out. There
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: were up to forty bodies being stored in one room
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: with no air conditioning, so they're just rotting. There's maggots
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: all over the place, there's some bombing liquids on the ground,
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: there's blood everywhere. I mean, basically this place was like
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: the site of a horror movie. And so the state
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: comes in, they shut this place down, and the owner,
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: after being shut down, just abandons the building, just leaves
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: it exactly the.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Way they had left it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, the bodies were removed by the state, but
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: all the equipment for the funeral home was just left behind.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: Everything was sealed up and that was that, and the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: place was deemed off limits. But naturally, urban explorers found
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: out about this and began going in to see this
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: horror show for themselves. And so April and our friends
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: they had heard about this place and immediately were like,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: we got to go in there, We got to see
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: it for ourselves. And so they hopped in a car
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: and they drove over three hours from Ohio to Michigan
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: just to check this place out. And now here they were,
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: door open, and in they go. Once the door shut
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: behind them, April and her two friends were looking down
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: this long, dark hallway. It's totally silent inside. The walls
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: were made out of cinderblock that have been painted white,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: but the paint was all chipping off, and they had
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: their flashlights out, and it's just it's dark and creepy,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and they're looking down the hallway and just for a
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: second they just stop and listen to see if anybody
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: else is inside of here moving around, you know, maybe
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: other urban explorers or even other animals or anything squatters,
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: they don't know. But they're sitting there for a second
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: just listening, and they don't hear anything. And so with
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: April in front, they begin walking down this hallway and
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: as they're walking, there's all this trash on the ground.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: It's totally eerie.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: As they're walking, you know, every little sound is sort
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: of startling them.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: They're kind of laughing as they're going.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: And eventually April stops in front of this first door
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: that she sees, the first door off the hallway, and
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: it's closed, and right across the center of this door
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: is this big caution sign saying, you know, stay back,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: and then underneath the caution sign it says formaldehyde. And
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: so April and our friends knew that, okay, well, formaldehyde
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: is a chemical used to embomb bodies, something funeral homes did,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: and so they know that behind this door very likely
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: was the embalming room where funeral homes would literally pump
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: dead bodies full of formaldehyde and prep the bodies, you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: to be presented at the wake, you know, before they're
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: actually laid to rest. You know, it's like this is
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: where actual dead bodies are manipulated and so April and
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: our friends are pretty excited, and so April's you know,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: she opens up the door and they look inside this room.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And it's very eerie.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: It's pretty much vacant, but in the center of this
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: room it's all dark.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: They have their flashlights.
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: Right in the center of the room is this metal table,
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the standalone metal table. It's like a gurney and it's
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: where the dead body would be placed as they're being embombed.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: And then on the wall all around or all these
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: shelves with various tools and you know, vials of various
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: milky liquids. There's a saw, there's scissors, there's scalpels on
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: the ground, there's you know, fabric that appears to have
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: some sort of bodily fluids on it. I mean, this
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: really looks like the scene of.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: A horror movie.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: But for April and her friends, it's like this is
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a gold mine. I mean, this is what we came
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: here for. And so April and her friends for the
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: next little bit, they just began walking all around the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: embombing room, you know, April taking photos and her friends
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: and April kind of moving things around, seeing what was
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: in there. And then eventually you know, they left, and
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: they continued to search the building, and they found a
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: chapel where there were caskets laying around. They also went
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: into a garage and they found there was an old
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: hearse just left inside the garage. I mean, the place
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: really was as creepy as everybody said it was. And
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: so it was sometime around discovering the garage that the
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: girls had gone back to the main hallway and they
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: discovered this other door that they hadn't seen when they
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: were searching over the first thirty minutes they had been
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: in there. And this door led to this ominous stairwell
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: that went down into what appeared to be the basement.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: And so at this point, you know, the.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: Girls felt like they had sort of searched the entire
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: main floor, and you know, the two friends, not April,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: they really wanted to go down these steps and explore
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: the basement. You know, they'd been here long enough that
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: it seemed pretty clear that they were the only ones
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: there that had been totally quiet, and even though it
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: was creepy, I mean, ultimately they sort of felt safe
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: at this point, and April did too, but she also
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was having a great time still taking pictures on the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: first floor, and so at this point the group.
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: Decided to split up.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: The two friends would go down into the basement and
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: April for a little bit longer would stay up on
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the first floor and just continue taking photos, and then
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: she would join them, and so no big deal, they
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: split up. The girls go down to the basement, April's
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: taking her photos, doing her thing, and just a couple
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: of minutes later, April hears her friends in the basement
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: through the floors, yelling out something to the effect of, oh,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: my gosh, is that real?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: And then the other friend is like, yes, that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Israel, Oh my gosh, And so April she runs to
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: that doorway. She goes down the stairs, and she finds
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: her friends at the foot of the stairs and they're
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: looking out into the main space of the basement that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: April can't quite see yet, and so she goes right
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: down to her friends.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: She's looking at them. They look horrified.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: They're looking out at something obviously terrible in the basement.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: And April turns from her friends to the basement and
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: what she sees makes no sense. There's just like this
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: empty basement, you know, with some stuff pushed up against
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the walls.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: But in the middle of the basement.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Is what appears to be like this standalone metal jail cell,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: like imagine metal rungs that you would imagine in a jail,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: but all the way around it's about eight feet tall,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: ten feet wide, four feet deep. It's just this inexplicable
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: standalone jail cell. At least that's the way April interpreted it,
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and so did her friends. And as she's looking at it,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: April she sees that in the middle of the jail cell,
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: if you will, is like this big metal box that's
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just sitting on the floor in the center of the cell.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: And then right above it in the ceiling is this
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: pretty big cutout, like a hole in the ceiling.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: And so April sees this and takes in what she's seeing,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and she can't really process it. She doesn't really understand
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: what this is. And she's looking at her friends and
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: they're so horrified.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: They've been yelling out about something being real, like what
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: is that, Oh my gosh, And she's kind of looking
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: back and forth, and then she sees it. She sees
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: there's something else inside of this jail cell, and when
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: she sees it, she recoils in horror. She grabs her friends,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: They sprint out of the funeral home and they call
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: the authorities. When authorities arrived, they went right down into
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the basement and they looked inside of that jail cell,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: and quickly they determined that April and her friends had
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: not been alone inside of this building like they had
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: thought it would turn out. Six days earlier, a local
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: man who had nothing to do with April and her friends,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: totally separate, had gone to this funeral home to have
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: a look around. Except he wasn't an urban explorer. He
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: was not going in here to have a good time
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: or take photos.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: He was going inside to.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Steal scrap metal and try to sell it for a profit.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: And so he made his way inside the funeral home.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: He looked around, you know, he didn't really find much,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: but eventually went down into the basement. And when he
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: got down there, he turned he looked out at that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: space down there, and he saw this jail cell, this
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: metal jail cell that just kind of sat in the
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: middle of the basement. Except what he would have seen
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: is just the bars that sort of surrounded the outside
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: of the cell, the actual cell itself, the metal box
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: in the middle that was on the floor that April
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: saw and her friend saw that was not there, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: the hole in the ceiling would not have been there.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: He would have just seen basically a lot of metal
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the basement. So he's thinking, I've
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: hit the jackpot. This is exactly what I've come here for,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: to take this metal and go sell it. And so
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this man he goes into the jail cell, into this cage,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: and he quickly realized the actual metal struts that made
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: up the cage, even if they were super valuable, they
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: were thick and difficult to cut through, and so realistically
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: they were going to be really hard to extricate and
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: get out of this place. But when the man is
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: actually inside of this jail cell, this cage, he sees
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: there's actually some other metal that he hadn't seen when
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: he first came down that might be far easier to extract. Basically,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: right in the middle of the cell were additional metal
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: rods that were running from the ceiling down to the ground.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: They were far thinner.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: And easier to move around, and he's thinking, you know,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: I could actually cut these and get these out of
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: here and turn a profit on them and then come
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: back at a later date with you know, more people
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: or more powerful tools to cut the metal that sort
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: of was the cage, the stuff that he had originally seen,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: and so, feeling pretty optimistic, the guy put his stuff down,
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: you know, his phone, his wallet, his other things, off
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: to the side, you know, in the cage, and then
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: he got out his bolt cutters and he cut the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: very first one of these thinner ca right in the
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: middle of the cell. And as soon as he cut
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: one of them, there was this loud rumbling sound he
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: would have heard right above him, and then this big
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: metal box came crashing down and pinned him to the ground.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: It would turn out what.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: This man had walked inside of was not a jail
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: cell in the basement of the funeral home. It was
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: actually the inner workings of something known as a casket lift.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Basically, the funeral.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Home has to raise caskets from the basement where potentially
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: they're stored up to the main floor to be used.
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: And you know, they're pretty cumbersome big things that need
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: to get moved around, and so effectively they have an
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: elevator that brings them up. And so that big metal
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: box that came crashing down on the sky was the
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: actual lift itself that actually carried up the caskets, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the cord that he cut were actually the cords that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: supported that lift, and so as soon as he cut
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: one of them, he was cutting the support to effectively
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the elevator car that was right above him that then
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: fell and crushed him. However, he didn't die from getting crushed.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: He just got trapped. And as soon as he realized
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: he was trapped and being kind of crushed to death here,
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: he reached for his phone, but he realized his phone
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: was just barely outside of his reach. He couldn't get
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: to his phone, and nobody knew he was here. This
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: was an illegal activity. He didn't broadcast where he was going,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: and so he's stuck. He can't call anyone, and no
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: one knows he's here. And so for six days, that
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: lift gradually crushed this man to death. And then finally
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: when April and her friend showed up and they went
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: down in the basement, they didn't just see this destroyed
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: casket lift. They saw this dead man's body and he
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: was literally outstretched, still reaching for his phone. On the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: morning of September tenth, nineteen eighty seven, police Constable Dick
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Ellis walked into an interview room in a police station
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: in South Yorkshire, England. Inside of this room was a table,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: and sitting on the other side of this table were
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: these two security guards. One was named Stephen Brooks and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: the other was named David Goldthorpe. And from PC Ellis's perspective,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: his first impression of these two guys is they were
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: like big, burly, tough looking men. He could tell they
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: were both visibly shaken, like something had really rattled.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: Both of these guys.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: However, before Ellis could even sit down and begin asking
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: basic questions about what was going on here, these two
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: security guards just launched into this totally crazy sounding story.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: The men told Ellis that the night before they had
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: been patrolling this construction site where workers were building a
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: six mile stretch of highway and bridge that were called
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the Stocksbridge Bypass. Now, at this time of night, there
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: was nobody at the site, no workers, nothing like that,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: and so really it was the security guard's job to
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: make sure nobody entered the site and either tampered with
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: equipment or tried to steal anything. Now, the night had
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: been very routine and quiet until around midnight. It was
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: at that point that David and Steven. These two security
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: guards had reached the bridge, the half constructed bridge portion
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of this bypass, and as they're walking along the highway
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: and they see the bridge out in front of them,
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: they stopped because they saw clearly there was a figure
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: standing on this bridge. It almost looked like a man
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: who was wearing a long jacket like a cloak or something,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: and he appeared to be staring down below the bridge,
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: down towards the valley underneath what the bridge was actually
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: going over, Like this man clearly had not spotted these
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: security guards, and so naturally they began calling out to
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: this guy, you know, asking him like, hey, what are
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: you doing here?
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: This is a private construction site, like you need to go.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: But the guy on the bridge didn't react. He just
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: kept staring down to the valley below. And so at
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: that point, as the two security guards are now walking
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: in the direction of this guy, one of them lifts
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: up his flashlight and shines it at this man, and
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: when he does, the beam of light appears to just
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: go through this man's body, like his body isn't solid,
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: and the light just passed right through. And as soon
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: as they did that both Stephen and David just stopped,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: shocked at what they're seeing, aiming this light at the sky.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And as they're doing this, the figure appeared to kind
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: of turn and look at David and Stephen, and they
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: were so unsettled and terrified by it that instead of
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: protecting the construction site, they just turned and ran and
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: they went.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: To the police.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Now, after PCLS had been told this story, he did
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: not believe in any way that what they had experienced
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: was supernatural. He's thinking, Okay, clearly, you know, you saw
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: some guy and you know, maybe he shouldn't have been there,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: and maybe it was a trick of the light or something,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: or maybe that wasn't a person at all, and you
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: just thought it was like, who knows, but there has
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: to be a logical, rational explanation here. And so, feeling
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: kind of annoyed that he was called in to deal
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: with this, Elis looks at these two guys and he's like, look.
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: This is not a police matter.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: Why don't you guys, if you're so shaken up by this,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: you know, go talk to the church or something like.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: This is not something we can help you with. And
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: at that the two security guards just said okay, and
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: they got up and they left, and Ellis truthfully didn't
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: think about this at all. It was like, okay, great,
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that's done. I don't got to deal with that, and
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: he went on with his day. But later that day,
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Ellis got a call from his boss being like, hey,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: did you tell two security guards who came in here
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: to go talk to the church about some ghosts they
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: saw at a construction site or something. And at this
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Elis had to kind of explain what had happened and
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: how he had sort of flippantly told them to, you know,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: go see the church if they really thought they saw
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: a ghost.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: But his boss was like.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Well, they took you literally, and they are currently at
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: the local church, those two security guards right now, and
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: they are refusing to leave unless the church helps them
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: with this ghost situation. And so Elis's boss told him
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: that you just need to go to the church, get
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: these two guys to calm down and leave.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Go do that right now.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: And so Ellis is like, I can't believe they took
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that seriously. Okay, fine, So he hops in his cruiser,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: he goes to the church. He finds these two guys
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: who are still totally shaken up and they're they're pleading
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: with people to take them seriously, somebody needs to go
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: out there and see what's on the bridge, see.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: What this could have been.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: And Eliss like, guys, I will tonight go to the bridge.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I will check it out. I'll see what's going on there.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: If you leave the church and you don't come back,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: like leave these people alone. And at this, you know,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: David and Steven they're totally relieved. They're like, oh you will,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, great, we'll leave, thank you, like let
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: us know what you find.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: And they left the church.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: And so they left and Pclis is like, okay, great,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: I guess tonight I'm gonna go looking for ghosts. And
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: so that night, around midnight, Pclis and his partner drove
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: over to the construction site. Specifically, they went to the bridge.
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: They got on the road that actually went underneath this
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: unfinished bridge, and they camped out on.
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  Speaker 2: This lower road. Looking straight up in front of them
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  Speaker 2: was this bridge.
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  Speaker 1: They're basically just gonna monitor this bridge because that's where
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  Speaker 1: the security guards claim to have seen this figure, this ghost.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they're gonna stake out this bridge, see what happens.
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  Speaker 2: Call it good.
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  Speaker 1: Now, at first nothing happened on this bridge. Alis and
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  Speaker 1: his partner just sat there staring board up at this bridge,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for you know, the time to pass by so
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  Speaker 1: they could leave. But at some point Ellis noticed movement
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  Speaker 1: up on the bridge, and so did his partner. Now
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't quite tell what it was, and they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: even see if it was still moving around anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: clearly something.
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  Speaker 2: Had moved on the bridge.
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  Speaker 1: And so for a couple of seconds, Allis and his
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  Speaker 1: partner are just staring really intently up at the bridge,
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  Speaker 1: waiting to see something else happen.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, nothing else did.
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  Speaker 1: And so Elis is like, well, I gotta go up
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  Speaker 1: there and check, because you know, maybe there is some
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  Speaker 1: guy who's trespassing on the construction site.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what the security guard saw.
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  Speaker 1: Like, I gotta go up there and see because from
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  Speaker 1: down here, you know, we really can't see too well.
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  Speaker 1: And so Ellis told his partner to just stay put
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  Speaker 1: in the car that he Ellis would go up on
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  Speaker 1: the bridge and have a look around.
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  Speaker 2: And so Ellis he got out of the car.
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  Speaker 1: All he had was a flashlight and he began walking
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  Speaker 1: over to the bottom of this bridge, and there was
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  Speaker 1: actually a ladder he would have to climb up to
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  Speaker 1: the actual bridge, because remember they're on the road below
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  Speaker 1: this bridge. And so Elisi gets to the ladder, he
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  Speaker 1: begins climbing up the ladder, and as he's going up,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of staring up, you know, almost
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  Speaker 1: expecting somebody to poke their head over, but you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's quiet, no one's looking over the edge. And eventually
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  Speaker 1: Ellis gets to the top and he climbs onto the
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  Speaker 1: bridge and again it's this unfinished bridge. There's no traffic
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  Speaker 1: up here, and he looks roughly in the direction of
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  Speaker 1: where he thought he saw a movement when he was
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  Speaker 1: down in the car looking up here, which also happened
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  Speaker 1: to be roughly the area where the two security guards
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  Speaker 1: had described seeing the figure that their light had shone through.
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  Speaker 1: And sure enough, Ellis looks and he sees there's this
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  Speaker 1: cloaked figure standing a little ways off of the side
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  Speaker 1: of the bridge, apparently just looking down towards his police car.
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  Speaker 2: And Alis at first, he's kind of shocked.
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  Speaker 1: He can't believe that, like there's some legitimacy to the
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  Speaker 1: story these guys had told, and he couldn't help, but
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  Speaker 1: be kind of frightened for a second. But then Ellis
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  Speaker 1: raised his flashlight and shined it at this figure, and
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  Speaker 1: as soon as he did, he just laughed because all
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  Speaker 1: it was was a plastic tarp wrapped around some construction equipment. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's what the security guards clearly had seen. And you
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  Speaker 1: know when they shine their light, I mean it's a
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  Speaker 1: clear plastic tarp here.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the light could theoretically go through it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can kind of see how they would think,
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  Speaker 1: oh my gosh, it's a ghost. And so Ellis is like,
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  Speaker 1: this is all this was. This was nothing. I knew
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  Speaker 1: it was nothing, and now I know it's nothing. And
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  Speaker 1: so after doing a cursory walk around the bridge to
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  Speaker 1: you know, make sure nobody was up there, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: he looked around. There wasn't anybody there, Ellis went back
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  Speaker 1: to the ladder, climbed back down, got in the car
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  Speaker 1: with his partner and explained to him that this whole
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  Speaker 1: thing was a joke, and of.
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  Speaker 2: Course there's no ghost, there's no criminals, there's nothing. This
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  Speaker 2: is no big deal.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Allis and his partner could have at this point
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  Speaker 1: just left and gone home, but they had told their boss,
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  Speaker 1: they'd come out here for at least an hour, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, they'd only been here for maybe thirty minutes
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  Speaker 1: at this point, and so the two of them decided,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, just because we said we would, let's
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  Speaker 1: just stay here a little bit longer and make sure
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  Speaker 1: nobody goes on this bridge. You know, we'll give it
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  Speaker 1: another you know, thirty minutes or so, and so Allis
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  Speaker 1: and his partner just kind of sit back in their
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  Speaker 1: seats and settle in for this last little stretch of
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  Speaker 1: their shift. However, about twenty minutes into this final thirty minutes,
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  Speaker 1: Ellis is still just sitting there, his windows open, and
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  Speaker 1: he's just kind of doing nothing, waiting around, when suddenly
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  Speaker 1: he's hit with this unbelievably cold gust of air that
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  Speaker 1: comes into the car through his window.
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  Speaker 2: And it's kind of like sudden, like he's being hit
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  Speaker 2: with this gust of cold air.
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  Speaker 1: And then at the same time, Ellis began feeling this
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  Speaker 1: incredible pressure on his chest, like it was so intense
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  Speaker 1: he thought he was having a heart attack, and he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to say something to his partner.
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  Speaker 2: But it was like she couldn't even move. He's like frozen.
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  Speaker 2: He's getting scared.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't know what's happening, and as much as he
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  Speaker 1: wanted to, like yell out and get his partner's attention
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  Speaker 1: to help him, he suddenly had this overwhelming feeling that
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  Speaker 1: there was someone off to the side staring at him,
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  Speaker 1: someone right outside the car, And even though he didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to look, he found himself slowly turning and looking
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  Speaker 1: out his open window. And right there, immediately outside the
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: door is this man standing practically pressed up against the window,
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  Speaker 1: his torso is inches away from Ellis's face, just standing
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  Speaker 1: there inexplicably like this guy snuck up on them. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't even hear him, and so Elis at this point
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  Speaker 1: he breaks out of his sort of trance. He screams
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  Speaker 1: and gets his partner's attention, and then he pushes open
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  Speaker 1: his door and he jumps out to confront this person
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  Speaker 1: who's snuck up on them, but there's no one outside
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  Speaker 1: the car, and so Ellis he turns to his partner
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  Speaker 1: and he's like.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, did you just see what I just saw? Did
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  Speaker 2: you see that guy?
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  Speaker 1: And Ellis's partner, who's totally ashen faced, just looks at
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  Speaker 1: Ellis and he's like, yeah, I did see him, and
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: so after looking around for a couple more seconds, Ellis
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: climbed back into the car, and then he and his
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: partner debriefed what had just happened, and Ellis's partner would
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: tell Ellis that from his seat, he actually had a
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: better vantage point than Ellis did to seeing this guy.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Ellis was basically right on top of this guy,
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  Speaker 1: but his partner.
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  Speaker 2: Was a little bit farther back and had a better angle.
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  Speaker 1: And he would tell Ellis that at some point he
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  Speaker 1: had turned and seen the guy standing there, and the
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  Speaker 1: guy he was wearing this old coat, this long coat
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  Speaker 1: that sort of looked like it belonged in the eighteen
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  Speaker 1: hundreds or something. And the partner would say, like, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't hear this guy approach, He didn't know how he
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: got there, but at some point, he said, the guy
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  Speaker 1: in the coat, the guy outside crouched down just enough
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: that he was looking in the car in the direction
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  Speaker 1: of Ellis's partner, and Ellis's partner said he was staring
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  Speaker 1: right at the guy, but the guy he had no face. Ultimately,
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: Ellis and his partner would return to the station that
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  Speaker 1: night and they would file a report about what happened
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  Speaker 1: to them. But they would simply describe it as inexplicable phenomenon,
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  Speaker 1: and after filing it, they basically hoped they would never
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: have to talk about it again, except that wouldn't be
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: possible because shortly after filing that report, the construction was finished,
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: and so the highway and the bridge were open to
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: the public, and pretty much right away people started dying
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: on that bridge. Like a crazy high number of people
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  Speaker 1: just inexplicably would get in these fatal accidents on the bridge,
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  Speaker 1: and this bridge was not like especially hazardous. It was
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: a beautiful, brand new bridge. I mean, there really should
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: not have been this many accidents. But it was not
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: just that so many people were dying on this bridge
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  Speaker 1: inexplicably no. Also in tandem with all the fatal accidents
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: were all the independently reported sightings of this dark figure
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  Speaker 1: staying on the bridge that had no face. So the
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  Speaker 1: leading theory amongst people who believe what's happening at this
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  Speaker 1: bridge is basically paranormal, is that the construction of this
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: bridge and the highway disturbed a grave site and that
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  Speaker 1: that has led to all the tragedy and death that
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: has followed. But they've never actually been able to prove
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  Speaker 1: if there really was a grave site where this bridge
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  Speaker 1: or the highway was built. The two security guards, Stephen
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Brooks and David Goldthorpe, both quit their jobs. As for
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Ellis and his partner, they've never changed their stories and
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  Speaker 1: they also have never found a reasonable explanation.
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  Speaker 2: For what they saw. Thank you so much for watching.
• 39:44
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