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Top 5 Bingeable SCARY STORIES • STRANGEST of the Strange Edition Vol. 3 - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Okay, let's get into today's five stories. The Trump family were,
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  Speaker 1: by all accounts, a normal, hard working household. Fifty one
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  Speaker 1: year old Mark Trump and his wife, fifty three year
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  Speaker 1: old Kobe Trump, had established a successful red current farm
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  Speaker 1: and earth moving business at their property in Sylvan, which
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  Speaker 1: is just outside of Melbourne.
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  Speaker 2: Their three adult children.
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  Speaker 1: Which were twenty nine year old Rihanna, twenty five year
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  Speaker 1: old Mitchell, and twenty two year old Ella, all lived
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  Speaker 1: and worked with them at the farm, but their seemingly
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  Speaker 1: ordinary lives would change forever on Monday, August twenty ninth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen. That day, without any warning, the family dumped
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  Speaker 1: their passports, credit cards, and cell phones on the kitchen
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  Speaker 1: table and ran out the front door, leaving it unlocked.
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  Speaker 2: They hopped into Ella's car and drove north.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty kilometers into their journey, and it was discovered that
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  Speaker 1: the sun. Mitchell still had his phone, and so the
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  Speaker 1: others yelled at him to throw it out the window,
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  Speaker 1: and so he did.
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  Speaker 2: He chucked his phone out the window.
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  Speaker 1: The family drove all day and night until they reached
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  Speaker 1: a motel in the New South Wales town of Bathurst,
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  Speaker 1: eight hundred kilometers.
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  Speaker 2: Away to the west of Sydney.
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  Speaker 1: The following morning, Mitchell decided he did not want to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of whatever it was they were doing,
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  Speaker 1: and so he abandoned his family and began heading home.
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  Speaker 2: The remaining four family members did not go after Mitchell.
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  Speaker 1: Instead, they just piled back in the car and drove
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  Speaker 1: east to a popular tourist destination called the Genoleen Caves.
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  Speaker 1: It was there that the two daughters, Rihanna and Ella,
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  Speaker 1: decided that they also did not want to be a
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  Speaker 1: part of whatever it was they were doing, and so
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  Speaker 1: they snuck away from their parents and stole a car
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  Speaker 1: and began heading home. The parents, after realizing their daughters
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  Speaker 1: had now left, did nothing.
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  Speaker 2: They did not go after them.
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  Speaker 1: The two sisters drove south to the town of Goldburn,
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  Speaker 1: where they called the police to report their parents missing.
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  Speaker 1: The story made its way into the media, where the
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  Speaker 1: family was initially ridiculed for getting lost in the first
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  Speaker 1: place and getting completely separated in an area they should know.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is their country, it's not a remote area.
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  Speaker 1: They were near big, established towns, the entire time, it
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  Speaker 1: just didn't make sense. But when police went to the
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  Speaker 1: Trump family farm back in sylvan and they discovered the
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  Speaker 1: front door was unlocked, there were credit cards, passports, and
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  Speaker 1: phones on the table, Suddenly it seemed like there was
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  Speaker 1: a lot more to this case than met the eye.
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  Speaker 1: And so as this strangeness came into focus in the media,
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  Speaker 1: people stopped ridiculing the family and began speculating what caused
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  Speaker 1: them to suddenly flee their house. Was it something in
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  Speaker 1: the water they were drinking. Was there chemicals on the
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  Speaker 1: farm that was screwing up their brain? Were they running
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  Speaker 1: from someone? Were they in debt?
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  Speaker 2: You know? What was it that caused this strange sue
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  Speaker 2: and departure.
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  Speaker 1: Back in Goldburn, after reporting their parents missing, Rihanna and
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  Speaker 1: Ella inexplicably separated at a gas station. Rihanna just climbed
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  Speaker 1: in the back of some utility truck and Ella hopped.
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  Speaker 2: In the stolen vehicle and started driving home.
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  Speaker 1: Later that night, Ella would become the first Trump family
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  Speaker 1: member to be located by police when she arrived at
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  Speaker 1: the farm and.
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  Speaker 2: Police were waiting for her there.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell would arrive back home the following morning after taking
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  Speaker 1: a series of trains to get there. Once Mitchell and
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  Speaker 1: Ella were reunited, they made a statement to the media
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  Speaker 1: outside of the family farm, and as you're looking at them,
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  Speaker 1: it's clear they're totally shell shocked. They don't know what's happened,
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  Speaker 1: and they're trying to articulate why their family left in
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  Speaker 1: the first place, and what they were doing and where
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  Speaker 1: they're going. And the best they could do was to say, well,
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  Speaker 1: there was a lot of pressure on our family and
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  Speaker 1: it was building up, and these things are just difficult
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  Speaker 1: to explain, and I don't really know.
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  Speaker 2: What we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell would say that there was a belief that people
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  Speaker 1: were after them, there was some paranoia there, but that
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  Speaker 1: paranoia was predominantly held by their parents. While Mitchell and
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  Speaker 1: Ella were certainly in a state of shock, they did
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  Speaker 1: seem mentally stable. The same could not be said for
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  Speaker 1: their sister, Rihanna. She was discovered by the driver of
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  Speaker 1: the truck she had snuck into after he had driven
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  Speaker 1: over an hour away.
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  Speaker 2: He had pulled over to check on something.
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  Speaker 1: He had gone around the back and then had the
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  Speaker 1: life scared out of him when he saw Rihanna just
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  Speaker 1: sitting there in a what he called catatonic state. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't know her name, she didn't know where she was,
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  Speaker 1: she was just sitting there. Rihanna was taken to the
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  Speaker 1: Goldburn Hospital, where she was put into their psychiatric unit.
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  Speaker 1: As media interests grew, the parents, Mark and Kobe got
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  Speaker 1: back in their car up at the Genoleen Caves and
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  Speaker 1: drove south towards Melbourne. A day later, on Wednesday, the
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  Speaker 1: pair had driven six hundred kilometers to the Victorian town
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  Speaker 1: of Wangarata, where.
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  Speaker 2: They too inexplicably separated.
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  Speaker 1: Kobe turned around and started heading north again by means
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  Speaker 1: which are still a mystery, and a day later was
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  Speaker 1: found three hundred and fifty kilometers away in the town
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  Speaker 1: of Yas in a very agitated state. She was taken
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  Speaker 1: to a hospital there, but then transferred to the Goldburn
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  Speaker 1: psychiatric Unit to be with her daughter, Rihanna mar Wangarada,
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  Speaker 1: and he was there for several days. And during his
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  Speaker 1: time there he was spotted by a young couple really
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  Speaker 1: aggressively tailgating them, and then he was spotted again on
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  Speaker 1: another day fleeing from the car he had been driving. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: on Saturday evening, all of the Trump family members were
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  Speaker 1: accounted for when Mark was finally discovered sitting next to
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  Speaker 1: the road near the Wangarata Airport. He was questioned by
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  Speaker 1: police and then assessed by a mental health officer, and
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  Speaker 1: then was released into the custody of his brother, who
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  Speaker 1: was a police officer, and as they drove away, Mark
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  Speaker 1: turned around and flipped off the photographers that had converged
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  Speaker 1: on the spot. He later released a more contrite statement
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  Speaker 1: apologizing for the hurt and concern that were caused by
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  Speaker 1: these events, and he also paid respect to the police
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  Speaker 1: and the volunteers that went out looking for them. After
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  Speaker 1: the investigation, the police determined that nobody was chasing this family.
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  Speaker 2: They were not in any danger.
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  Speaker 1: The family had also not taken any drugs, they were
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  Speaker 1: not in debt, they were not involved in any sort
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  Speaker 1: of religious cult, and prior to this strange event, the
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  Speaker 1: family had.
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  Speaker 2: No history of mental health issues.
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  Speaker 1: After the dust had settled, when the Trump family was
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  Speaker 1: just back at their farm going about their normal life,
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  Speaker 1: every media outlet wanted an interview with them to try
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  Speaker 1: to learn more about why this strange thing happened, but
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  Speaker 1: the family said, we're not doing interviews.
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  Speaker 2: We're not putting out any more statements.
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  Speaker 1: We just want to be left alone, and so as
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  Speaker 1: a result, all people could do was theorize, and the
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  Speaker 1: leading theory was that the Trump family was suffering from
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  Speaker 1: something called fali ad, which is a French term that
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  Speaker 1: means madness for two. And what happens is one person
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  Speaker 1: who is delusional can pass that delusion on to other people,
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  Speaker 1: and this typically only happens in very close knit families
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  Speaker 1: or in very.
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  Speaker 2: Tight romantic relationships.
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  Speaker 1: While it's unclear which of the Tromps became psychotic first,
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  Speaker 1: doctors say it is clear at some point they were
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  Speaker 1: in a cycle of reinforcing each other's delusions if this
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  Speaker 1: fali ad theory is the right one. While the full
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  Speaker 1: reasons for why the Trumps went on this strange voyage
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  Speaker 1: will probably never be known, the police deemed it of
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  Speaker 1: family matter and did not press charges.
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  Speaker 2: Richard Russell, better.
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  Speaker 1: Known as Bibo by his friends and family, was born
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty nine in Key West, Florida, but at
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  Speaker 1: the age of seven he moved.
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  Speaker 2: To Wasilla, Alaska.
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  Speaker 1: He was a standout athlete at Wasilla High School, competing
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  Speaker 1: in football and in track and field. After graduating in
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight, he moved to Coos Bay, Oregon,
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  Speaker 1: where he briefly attended a community college. While he was there,
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  Speaker 1: he met a woman named Hannah Streisner, and in twenty
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  Speaker 1: eleven they got married, and shortly after that they opened
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  Speaker 1: a bakery that they would run together for three years. Hannah,
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  Speaker 1: who had gone to culinary school, was very detail oriented
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  Speaker 1: and ran the show at the bakery. Bibo, on the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, was not professionally trained and was much more
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  Speaker 1: laid back and interested in experimenting with new and wild recipes.
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  Speaker 1: In twenty fifteen, with heavy hearts, they decided to sell
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  Speaker 1: the bakery so they could move to Seattle and be
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  Speaker 1: closer to Hannah's family. Once they arrived there, BiVO got
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  Speaker 1: a job at the Seatag Airport as a ground service
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  Speaker 1: agent for Horizons Airline. It was not a job he
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  Speaker 1: necessarily wanted, but they needed the cash. After working at
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  Speaker 1: Horizons air for four years as a ramper someone that
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  Speaker 1: moves the luggage in and out of the aircraft, Biva
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  Speaker 1: was given some additional responsibility. They asked him to be
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  Speaker 1: on a two person tow team. A tow team is
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  Speaker 1: in charge of moving airplanes around in between their flights,
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  Speaker 1: and so the way this works is one person goes
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  Speaker 1: down and drives the actual tow vehicle and hooks that
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  Speaker 1: up to the airplane and begins moving it around, and
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  Speaker 1: the other person would go up into the cockpit, turn
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  Speaker 1: the plane on, and then work a couple of very
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  Speaker 1: basic systems to help get the plane to go where
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  Speaker 1: it needs to go. The members of a tow team
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  Speaker 1: are one of the very few number of people that
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  Speaker 1: are allowed to go into the cockpit of an aircraft
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  Speaker 1: by themselves, and so Bibo really relished this opportunity, and
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  Speaker 1: when he was up there, he found himself fascinated with
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  Speaker 1: all the controls, and any chance he got, he would
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  Speaker 1: ask a pilot if they were inside of the aircraft
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  Speaker 1: to teach him what some of these controls were. But
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  Speaker 1: one time Bibo was flipping some of the switches in
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  Speaker 1: the cockpit that he was not supposed to touch that
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  Speaker 1: other pilots had told him about, and the pilot of
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  Speaker 1: this particular plane caught him doing it, took exception to it,
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  Speaker 1: and reported him, but surprisingly there were no repercussions. It
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  Speaker 1: was just really embarrassing for Bibo. Like many of the
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  Speaker 1: other ground service agents working at Horizon Airlines, Bibo was
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  Speaker 1: generally unhappy.
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  Speaker 2: With his job.
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  Speaker 1: He felt like it was boring, that there wasn't much
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  Speaker 1: upward mobility, and that he was criminally underpaid. But there
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  Speaker 1: was one redeeming quality of his job, and that was
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  Speaker 1: in virtue of working for an airline, he got all
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  Speaker 1: sorts of free airfare, and so not only did he
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  Speaker 1: get to fly for free all over the world, he
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  Speaker 1: got to fly basically anytime he wanted up to Alaska
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  Speaker 1: to visit his hometown and see his family, something that
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  Speaker 1: was very important to him. The people that knew Bibo
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  Speaker 1: said he had a great sense of humor, he was
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  Speaker 1: extremely friendly, and you could always catch him with his
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  Speaker 1: head buried in a book. And his co workers would
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  Speaker 1: say he had aspirations to be an officer in the military.
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  Speaker 1: And when all those people that knew Bibo the best
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  Speaker 1: were asked, why do you think he did what he
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: did on August tenth, twenty eighteen, none of them have
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  Speaker 1: an answer. On that fateful day, at one thirty five
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  Speaker 1: pm local time, a passenger airplane owned by Horizon Airlines
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  Speaker 1: flew into Sea Tech Airport, where Bibo worked. And so
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  Speaker 1: this plane was not scheduled to fly for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the day, so it was taxied to the far
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  Speaker 1: north section of the airport to a parking spot called
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  Speaker 1: Cargo one. At seven fifteen pm that evening, Bibo arrived
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  Speaker 1: at Cargo one and he climbed inside the empty aircraft
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  Speaker 1: and made his way into the cockpit. He followed the
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  Speaker 1: startup procedure until the plane was on and the propellers
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  Speaker 1: were starting to turn. He hopped out of the plane,
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  Speaker 1: got in his tow vehicle and used it to turn
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  Speaker 1: the plane around so its nose was pointed towards the airfield.
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  Speaker 2: He moved the tow vehicle.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the way and then climbed back inside the aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: shut it behind him, and got in the cockpit and
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  Speaker 1: began taxiing out.
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  Speaker 2: Towards the runway.
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  Speaker 1: For the next few minutes, air traffic control bombarded Bibo
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  Speaker 1: over the radio, asking him what are you doing.
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  Speaker 2: This is unauthorized movement.
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  Speaker 1: You should not be heading towards the runway right now,
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  Speaker 1: but Bibo never responded. Instead, he just continued on until
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  Speaker 1: he reached the beginning of the runway, at which point,
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  Speaker 1: despite having no flight experience minus some video games and
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  Speaker 1: fiddling with some switches in the cockpit while he was
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  Speaker 1: in the toe team he managed to go full throttle
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  Speaker 1: and get this plane careening down the runway and successfully
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  Speaker 1: took off, But that was nothing compared to what he
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  Speaker 1: did next. Over the course of his one hour long flight,
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  Speaker 1: he expertly performed backflips and barrel.
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  Speaker 2: Rolls and these huge loops in the.
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  Speaker 1: Sky, dangerous maneuvers that even expert pilots might risk stalling
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  Speaker 1: the plane and crashing, but he didn't. It was like
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  Speaker 1: he'd been doing this his whole life. Onlookers on the
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  Speaker 1: ground were shocked to see this passenger airline performing these
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  Speaker 1: ridiculous stunts so low to the ground that all over
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  Speaker 1: Seattle you had people filming this plane and posting it
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  Speaker 1: to social media. So in real time, it was like
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  Speaker 1: the world was made aware of Bibo up in the sky,
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  Speaker 1: and so people went outside and just watched as he
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  Speaker 1: flew around. But the real story is not the aerial
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  Speaker 1: stunts that Bibo was pulling in the sky. It was
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  Speaker 1: the strange, calm conversation that Bibo had with the air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controller the whole time he was up in the sky.
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  Speaker 1: The extremely professional, very calm air traffic controller tries to
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  Speaker 1: convince Bibo that he really needs to come down and
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  Speaker 1: land this aircraft, and he begins telling him where he
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  Speaker 1: can go different airfields and if he needs to, he
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  Speaker 1: can land out in the Puget Sound. But Bibo kind
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  Speaker 1: of laughs it off and says, you know, I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: really ever trying to land this plane. I just wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do a couple maneuvers before I put it down.
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  Speaker 1: And so as Bibo's soared through the sky, this controller
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  Speaker 1: tries in vain to convince Bibo to stop what he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: and Bibo's just completely ignoring him and cracking jokes with
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  Speaker 1: him and telling him how he just loves the scenery
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  Speaker 1: up there and how beautiful it is.
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  Speaker 2: And then at one point.
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  Speaker 1: Bibo becomes remorseful and he says to the controller that
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  Speaker 1: he really hopes he hasn't ruined his day, and he
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  Speaker 1: feels really bad for the people that he's inevitably going
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  Speaker 1: to hurt. And then, in Bibo's most poignant moment, he
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  Speaker 1: tells the controller that he's just a broken guy and
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  Speaker 1: he's got a couple of screws loose, and he didn't
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  Speaker 1: know it until now. Towards the end of the flight,
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  Speaker 1: Bibo tells the controller that he's going to try for
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  Speaker 1: one more barrel roll and.
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  Speaker 2: If it goes well, he's going to go nose down
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  Speaker 2: and call it a night.
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  Speaker 1: The controller tries to convince him that it's still possible
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  Speaker 1: to try to land, but at.
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  Speaker 2: This point Bebo's not listening.
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  Speaker 1: At eight forty five pm, the nose of the plane
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  Speaker 1: was seen pointed straight down at the earth. One minute later,
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  Speaker 1: at eight forty six pm, Beibo intentionally crashed into a
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  Speaker 1: small island off the coast of Seattle. He was the
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  Speaker 1: only fatality in the crash. Here is a condensed version
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  Speaker 1: of some of the commentary between Bibo and the air
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  Speaker 1: traffic controller, along with some of the real footage of
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  Speaker 1: him flying the plane.
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  Speaker 2: I just gonna want to do a couple of maneuvers,
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  Speaker 2: see what it can do.
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  Speaker 1: It down, you know, Pro twelve come final runway one
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  Speaker 1: six right, poor man. I'm a ground service dage. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what that is. There is the runway just
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  Speaker 1: got your right side and about a mile do you
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  Speaker 1: see that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't know how to land it.
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't really planning on landing it.
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  Speaker 2: I got a lot of people that care about me,
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  Speaker 2: and it's going to disappoint them to you that I
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  Speaker 2: did this. I would like to pologize Sage and every
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  Speaker 2: one of them, just that broken guy.
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  Speaker 1: He got a few screwslers.
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  Speaker 2: I guess never really knew. It was still now pretty
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  Speaker 2: much try to do a barrel roll and if that
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  Speaker 2: goes good, down to go nose down and call the night.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: How Bebo was able to take off and fly around
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: and pull these stunts without any formal training remains a mystery.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: Some people believe he was planning this for a long time.
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Which is why whenever he was in the cockpit when
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: he was in the toe team, he would ask pilots
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: to explain the different switches and toggles and how to
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: use them, and he would feign that he was just curious,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: when in reality, he was actually.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: Trying to learn how to fly the plane.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: As for the incredible stunts he was doing, it's believed
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: he did learn those in a video game.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: But even if this is true that he learned.
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: How to fly a plane by asking a couple of
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: questions and playing video games, the chances of it working
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: out and actually successfully taking off and doing what he
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: did are astronomically low.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Normal people can't do that, and.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: That's why the Internet gave Bibo a new nickname to
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: commemorate the fact that basically no one could have done
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: this but him, and so they named him the Sky King.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: On the evening of June twenty fourth, nineteen eighty six,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: a ten year old boy named One Pedro Martinez Gomez
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: bounced around in his seat and smashed his toy cars
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: together in the cab of his father's big red tractor
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: trailer truck. One was so excited he could barely sit still.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: He always wanted to go for a ride in his
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: dad's big truck. His dad was a long haul trucker,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: but his dad always said no. But One had just
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: gotten his best report card ever, and so as a
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: reward for doing so well in school, One's father had
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: surprised One and One's mom with this particular trip.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: Their plan was to drive from their hometown in.
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: Southeastern Spain all the way across the country to the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: northern coast, and then once they got there, One's dad
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: would offload the cargo that he had driven there.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: One and his mom and dad would.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Stick around and kind of make a vacation out of it,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: going to the beaches and checking out the beautiful pastures
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: where all the cows would graze.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, one was super excited.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: One's dad pulled the truck into this big lot with
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: all these other trucks around, and then one's dad turned
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: around and began backing the truck up so it could
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: be paired up with the cargo he'd be hauling.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: To the north coast.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: It was this huge twenty five thousand liter tanker that
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: was covered in all these stickers and warning labels. And
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: you know, one's father didn't know what this tanker actually contained,
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: but he could tell you know, whatever it was, it
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: was pretty dangerous and also very important. And so as
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: one's dad is backing up skillfully to line up with
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: this tanker, one is just sitting in the back seat,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: absolutely transfixed at how cool his dad is. I mean,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: this is like the most amazing thing one had ever seen.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: And so finally one's dad successfully hitched the truck to
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: the tanker. And so once they were all hooked up,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: one's father yelled out the window and said bye to the.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: People he worked with.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: And then one's father put in one's favorite tape cassette
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: into the stereo and turned the music up, and then
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: he turned onto the road and began making his way
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: toward the highway.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: One's dad would drive.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Basically all night, and one and his mother would basically
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: sleep all night, but they would wake up at about
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: five am when One's father pulled into the parking lot
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: of a diner that was located just north of the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: city of Madrid, Spain. They were making great time, so
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Wan's father told his family they could take their time eating.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: When the family did finish their meals, they got up
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and began walking out towards the truck, and little Wan
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: he turned around and he waved to the waitresses and
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: they all waved back, and then the family climbed back
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: into one's father's truck, and then before long, One was
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: curled up in the backseat trying to fall asleep again
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: as his father merged onto the highway and began heading
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: towards this stretch of mountain road called the Soma Sierra
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Mountain Pass. About forty minutes later, a man who was
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: also driving in the Soma Sierra Mountain Pass was just
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: driving along when suddenly a huge red tractor trailer truck
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: came barreling toward him from behind, shining their lights into
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: his car, and so this man he sees this truck
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: approaching so quickly, and he tried to get out of
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: the way, but there was nowhere to go, and the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: truck wasn't stopping.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: It was honking its horn.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: And the truck smashed into this guy, which sent his
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: car careening off the road, but luckily it did not
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: tumble all the way down the mountain. And so this
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: guy's car comes to a stop on the side of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: the road, and the guy he kind of comes to
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and he feels himself.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: He's worried he's got a serious injury.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: He did find a little blood on his head, but
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: overall he felt he was okay. And then he managed
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: to get his door open and he climbed out of
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: his car, and he looked a little ways down the road,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and there was the truck that had hit him. It
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: was now on its side, and it was hissing steam,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: and it didn't look like anybody inside the truck was
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: trying to get out. Now, even though this guy was
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: pretty shaken up from the crash he had just gotten into,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he felt like he was definitely in better shape than
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: whoever was in this truck. And so he decided he
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: would just go up there and try to help them,
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: but after only taking a few steps, this white van
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: came blazing around the corner and came to a screeching
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: stop on the road right next to where this guy was.
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: And then before the guy could do anything, the sliding
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: door to the van flung open, and this woman with
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: blonde hair jumped out and she ran over to.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: Him, and she said, I'm a nurse, do you need
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: any help?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And so this guy he's looking at this woman and
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: he's kind of sizing her up, and she did not
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: seem like a nurse, and in fact, for some reason,
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this guy felt like she just made him really uncomfortable.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: He couldn't quite put his finger on it. And then
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: he looked past this woman at the van and he
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: saw the driver looked oddly similar to the woman, except
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: it was a man who was driving, but he also
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: had very bright blonde hair, and he had these striking
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: blue eyes that really stood out even from a distance.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: And then in the passenger seat of this van was
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: this elderly woman who was just staring daggers at this
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: guy who's now talking to this nurse who's right next
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: to him. And so the guy's looking at the old
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: woman and the old woman looking right back, and she
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: really looked mean, like she was not happy to be
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: talking to him. And so the guy finally just said
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: to this woman who was claiming to be a nurse,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that you know what, I don't need any help. Go
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: help them. They need help because they haven't gotten out
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: of the truck yet. The woman just nodded, and then
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: she ran back to the van, hopped inside, and the
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: van sped, you know, thee hundred feet down the road
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: to where the crashed big red tractor trailer truck was.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And again the.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: Woman hopped out, and she rushed over to the truck,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: and she climbed on top of it, and she reached
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: down and she took something out of the truck. But
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: from his perspective, you know, one hundred feet back the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: guy who had also crashed, he couldn't tell what she
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: had taken out of the cab. But after she took
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: whatever she took, she climbed off the cab. She did
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: not attempt to help anybody inside of the truck. She
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: jumped back in the white van, and the white fan
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: sped off down the road and they were gone. The
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: guy barely had time to process what had just happened
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: before he began to smell this unbelievably powerful rotten egg smell.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: When help arrived, emergency responders immediately realized they had an
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: environmental disaster on their hands. The big red tractor trailer truck,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: which was One's father's truck, was hauling twenty five thousand
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: liters of sulfuric acid, and that rotten egg smell they
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: were smelling in the area meant the air was now
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: becoming toxic as the sulfuric acid leaked out and began
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: interacting with the ground and making its way into the
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: nearby river. So before anybody could even go inside of
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: this truck to see if there were survivors, they had
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: to basically cover it and the surrounding areas with hundreds
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: and hundreds of pounds of sand and lime to try
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to counteract the acid. It would take hours to do this,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: and in that time, nobody came out of the truck's cap.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: And then finally, when emergency crews were able to go
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: up to the truck and look inside, they discovered that
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: the vehicle's occupants were all dead. However, there were only
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: two bodies. It was One's mother and father. One was
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. Now, one of the theories was, well,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: when this craftush, maybe the sulfuric acid landed on one's
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: body somehow and literally dissolved.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Him, and so that's why he was not found.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: But that's not possible because it would take much much
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: longer for sulfuric acid to totally eat away someone's body,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: and the body would have to be fully submerged in
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: the acid the entire time, so that could not have happened.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Rescuers would search the entire area, deep into the woods
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in all directions looking for signs of this child, but
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: there were none. And when investigators attempted to recreate this
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: accident to try to figure out what actually caused it
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: and why it happened, what they would learn would only
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: confuse them more. One's father's truck had nothing wrong with
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: it mechanically, meaning the brakes weren't messed up, you know,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the accelerator wasn't messed up. There really was no reason
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: why this truck should have crashed unless it was intentional.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: That's the only way this could have happened.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Also, the truck contains something called a techometer, which registers
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: every time the truck slows down or stops, and when
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: investigators look at the record from this techometer, they discovered
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that Wan's father had slowed down or stopped twelve different
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: times between leaving the diner and crashing. But the route
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: from the diner to the crash site was a straight
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: shot with no traffic lights or stop signs. Basically, there
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: had been no reason from the diner to the crash
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: site to ever slow down or stop. But again Wan's
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: father did twelve separate times. And then also there were
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: traces of heroin that were found in a hidden compartment
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: in One's father's truck. Now, Wan's parents had no criminal
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: record and absolutely no connection to drugs or the cartel,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: but investigators did consider a theory that, you know, perhaps
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: a drug cartel ambushed one in his family and ultimately
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: one was kidnapped. But there was one more really strange
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: element to one's disappearance, and that was that white van
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that that guy saw right after the crash. Multiple people
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: in the area around the Soma Sierra Mountain Pass said
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: they saw that exact white van because they all remembered
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the woman and the man who had that same really
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: bright blonde hair. It just was something that was kind
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: of unique and stood out. But the police tried to
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: track down this van and the man and the woman
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: and the elderly woman who was also claimed to have
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: been seen inside the van, but no trace of that
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: van was ever found, and also police were never able
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: to figure out what that woman actually took from inside
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: of One's father's cab before.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: They sped off and disappeared. Missing person.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: Posters of one went up all over Spain and almost
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: immediately loads of sightings were reported of one, but every
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: time the police followed up on these sightings.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: They never panned out.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Interpol, which is a major international police organization, called One's
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: disappearance one of the strangest disappearances in all of Europe.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: One year after the crash, so in nineteen eighty seven,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: a driving instructor in Madrid, Spain, was filling out some
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: paperwork in his office when he heard a knock on
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: the door. When he answered the door, he found was
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: this elderly woman who appeared to be blind, and with
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: her was a young boy who appeared to be about
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: eleven years old. The driving instructor asked them, you know,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: how can I help you? And he watched as the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: elderly woman turned and whispered something into the little boy's ear,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: and the driving instructor he could hear her whispering, but
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: he couldn't understand what she was saying. It sounded like
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: a foreign language, and in fact, it would turn out
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they figured out she was speaking Farsi, which is the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: language spoken in Iran. The little boy listened to the
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: elderly woman, and then after hearing what she had to say,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: he turned to the driving instructor and he asked, in
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: perfect Spanish, where's the US embassy. The instructor gave them directions,
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: and then the little boy nodded, and then he and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: the elderly woman they turned around. They grabbed each other's
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: hands and they began walking away.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: And as they walked away, the driving.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Instructor he just couldn't help if feel like there was
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: something oddly familiar about these two people, and so he
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: flagged them down and he said, come back for a second.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: And so the boy and the woman they came back,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: and the driving instructor he asked the boy, He said,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: you know, do you live in Spain? And if you do,
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: how long have you lived here for? And when he
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: asked the boy this, the boy immediately looked really afraid
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: and just didn't say anything and kind of just stepped
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: back like this, like he wasn't going to answer. And
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: then the elderly woman she turned and she whispered something
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: else into the boy's ear, and then after she was
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: done talking, the boy kind of settled down and he
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: looked at the driving instructor and he said six months.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: And for some reason, at this exact moment, the driving
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: instructor realized why this boy seemed so familiar. He remembered
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: seeing him on all those missing person posters all over
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: the place, and so the driving instructor he couldn't remember
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: the boy's name, and he goes, hold on a minute.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: He turns and he runs inside of his office and
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: he finds one of the posters that said one Pedro
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Martinez Gomez. He grabbed it and he ran back out
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: to show it to them and be like, hey, they're
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: looking for you.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: But when the.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Driving instructor came back to the front door, the boy
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and the blind old woman were gone. And so the
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: driving instructor he stepped out, he's looking around, he's yelling
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: out for them.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: They were gone.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: Now it's important to understand that to this day, no
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: sightings of one have ever been confirmed, and that includes
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: the driving instructor who claimed to have seen one. But
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: to this day, one's body has never been found. He's
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: still missing and his case is still unsolved. In eighteen
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: eighty seven, thirty five year old Robert Ledrux was a
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: very talented detective working in Paris, France. He was so
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: talented that periodically he would get called upon by other
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: police departments around the country to help them solve their
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: most difficult cases. And so that year there was this
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: coastal town in northern France that had the string of
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: sailors that went missing, and nobody had the slightest idea
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: what had happened to them, and so naturally Robert was
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: called in to investigate. The night Robert arrived in this
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: town was very late, and Robert was tired, so he
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: went straight to his hotel and he went to bed.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: The following morning, he got up and he went straight
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: to the local police department to meet the local officers
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: that he would be working with on this investigation. But
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: when he got there, he was told that the missing
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: sailor's case had been lowered in priority because during the
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: night a murder had been committed down on their beach.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: And so that was now their main focus.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And so they apologized to Robert and said, you know,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry you came all this way for nothing. But
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: since you're here, do you want to help us in
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: this beach murder investigation?
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: And Robert said sure.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: The victim was a middle aged man named Andre Monet,
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: who owned a dress.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: Shop in Paris, France.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: He had recently moved to this coastal town to enjoy
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: the beautiful scenery. When his body was discovered early that morning,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: it was quickly determined he had been killed by a
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: single gunshot wound to the chest where the bullet actually
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: went clear through him out the other.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Side, but they hadn't found the bullet.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: There were no suspects, there were no leads, there was
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: no clear motive. However, they were able to rule out
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: robber because there was still money in Andre's pockets, and
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: so Robert and the other local officers left the police
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: station and made their way down to the beach, where
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: they began examining the area where Andre had been found.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: The local officers focused on looking for the bullet, while
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Robert decided to walk a little ways down the beach
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: to see if there was any evidence that had been
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: overlooked in the initial search, and after only walking a
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: very short distance, Robert noticed some barely visible footprints that
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: appeared to pass right by where.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Andre's body had been found.
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: And these footprints they continued past that area and then
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: up a flight of stairs up onto the road where
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: they disappeared. Robert called over the other officers and told
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: them to make plaster casts of these footprints so he
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: could analyze them.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: What that meant is the.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Officers would literally just pour liquid plaster inside of these prints,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and then when they dried, they would pull that plaster
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: out and it.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: Would literally be a three D model of the foot
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: that had made the princes.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: And so, as the officers are working on these casts,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: Robert says to one of the officers that these prints
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: looked really to him like they were familiar in some way,
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: but he just couldn't place where he had seen them before.
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: Less than an hour later, when the plaster had dried,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the officers pulled them out and they handed them to Robert,
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: and as soon as Robert looked at them, he physically
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: reacted to what he was seeing. It was like he
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: was disappointed, and then, without saying anything, he just walked
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: down the beach with these plaster casts until he got
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: to the secluded area where he sat down, and he
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: sat there for hours and hours, just staring at the
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: plaster casts, seemingly unaffected by the sun that was blazing
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: down on him the whole time and the tide that
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: was very quickly creeping up on him. The local officers
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: who were watching this, they didn't know anything about Robert.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: All they knew is his reputation, which is he is
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: this totally legendary detective, and so they didn't dare question
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: his methods, even though this seemed really odd what he
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: was doing. Finally, by mid afternoon, Robert would put the
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: cast down, he would stand up, and he would walk
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: back over to the mystified local officers.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: And when he walked up to.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Them, he would say, there's no reason to stay at
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: the beach any longer or interview any more witnesses. I
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: think I've solved the case. But then instead of elaborating,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: he just turned around and walked up off the beach
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: and headed back for his hotel. The local officers just
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: looked at each other and shrugged, and they left too early.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: The next day, the bullet that had killed Andre Monette
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: was found on the beach, and so when Robert showed
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: up to the beach, the chief of police handed him
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: this bullet in an effort to help him continue the investigation,
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: and as soon as Robert looked at it, he sighed
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: and said, Okay, now I know for sure what happened.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: And then Robert proceeded to break down the murder. He said,
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the killer woke up in the middle of the night
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: on the night that Andre was killed, and he got
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: out of this bed. He put on his clothes, and
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: then he headed down to the beach. There he encountered
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Andre Monette, a man he didn't know who was most
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: likely out for a midnight stroll as well. The two
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: men struck up a friendly conversation, but at some point
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: it turned into some sort of quarrel, at which point
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: the killer drew his pistol, shot Andre in the chest,
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: and then fled the scene. Robert told the local police
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: chief that the reason he knew all these details is
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: because he had been the killer. He killed Andre Monet,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: but he didn't do it on purpose, and he didn't
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: remember because he killed Andre Monet while he was.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: Sleepwalking, he told the chief.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: When he was given those plaster casts of those footprints,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: he knew immediately why he thought those prints looked so familiar,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: because as soon as he looked at the casts, he
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: could tell whoever had made the prince was missing a tow,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and as it happened, Robert was missing a toe.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: So those princes looked exactly like his footprints.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: And that morning, when he had woken up in his
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: hotel room before even going down to the beach, he
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: had noticed that his shoes and his socks which were
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: next to his bed, were sandy and damp, and he
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: thought that was so strange because he couldn't remember how
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: they got that way, but he was too busy to investigate.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: And that night, after he had sat all day looking
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: at the casts and then left the beach, leaving the
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: local police officers totally mystified, he had gone back to
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: his room and the first thing he did was get
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: his revolver out from under his pillow, and he discovered
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: that one bullet was missed, and he always kept his
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: revolver fully loaded, and so he spent the rest of
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: the night trying to convince himself that this was just
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: one big coincidence. But the following morning, when he was
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: given that bullet, he knew immediately that this was not
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: a coincidence. The bullet that had killed Andre Monet was
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: the same type of ammunition that he loaded his revolver with,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: and so he had to be the killer. He had
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: effectively caught himself. The police were totally shocked and did
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: not believe this at first. More specifically, they didn't want
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: to believe that Robert, their star detective, was.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Behind this horrible homicide.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: But eventually, after examining all the evidence, they agreed he
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: had to be the killer.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: But to test whether.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: This really was sleepwalking and not some elaborate cover up
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: by Robert, they.
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Decided to conduct an experiment.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Robert, who was fully cooperative with the investigation, was told
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: to sleep in this jail cell where he would be
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: monitored twenty four to seven by armed guards, and in
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: this cell with him would be a revolver loaded with
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: blank rounds, and he was told to keep it under
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: his pillow.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: For the first couple nothing happened.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Robert never touched the revolver during the day or when
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: he was asleep, But about a week into this experiment,
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Robert suddenly woke up in the middle of the night.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: In this trance like state, he reached under his.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Pillow, pulled out the revolver and began firing at the
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: guards right outside of the cell. And so this convinced
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: the police that Robert had been telling the truth about
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: what happened to Andre Monette.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: He really had killed him while he was sleepwalking. A
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: decision was made not to prosecute Robert for the murder.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Instead, they decided to basically exile him for everybody's protection,
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: and so from then until nineteen thirty seven, when Robert died,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: he was forced to live alone on the secluded farm
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: outside of Paris, where the only visitors he ever got
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: were doctors.
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: Who would only show up during the day and with armed.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Bodyguards in the early morning hours before sunrise. On April twelfth,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: nineteen ninety, a thirty one year old man named Nathan
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: Nesmith pushed down on the gas throttle of the fishing
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: boat that he was steering just off the coast of Georgia,
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: and as he did this, he expected the boat to
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: naturally kind of kick into a higher gear and go faster.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: But as he pushed that throttle down.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: Nothing really happened, and the boat just kind of sputtered along,
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: going about half the speed that he expected it to go. Confused,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Nathan stepped away and began making his way out towards
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: the deck where his younger brother, Billy Joe, who was
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: actually the captain of this fishing boat, was out there
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: taking a nap, And Nathan vigered, you know, if there
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: was any issue with the boat, billy Joe was the
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: guy to talk to.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: He would know how to fix it.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: Now, for context, the two brothers were on the first
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: day of a seven day fishing trip that actually Nathan
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: was not supposed to be a part of the crew.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Was originally going to be Billy Joe, the captain and
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: the one who actually rented the boat, along with billy
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: Joe's nephew and also two other commercial fishermen. But at
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: the last second, those two other commercial fishermen had bowed
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: out and Nathan and a friend had volunteered to go
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to round out the crew. Now, Nathan and billy Joe,
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: they came from a fishing family, but it was really
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: only billy Joe who had pursued the family business. Now
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Nathan was perfectly handy out on the water and didn't
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: know how to fish and knew his way around a
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: fishing boat, but compared to Billy Joe, there was a
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: massive gap and experience.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Billy Joe was.
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: The fisherman and Nathan really was not. But Nathan and
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: billy Joe were very close, and so as soon as
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: Nathan heard billy Joe was in trouble and needed some
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: more fishermen, Nathan didn't hesitate to say he would do it,
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: because really, for their entire lives that was sort of
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: their dynamic. Even though Nathan was the older brother, it
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: was Nathan who looked up to billy Joe and any
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: chance he got he would do anything to help billy Joe,
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: and billy Joe really respected that and loved that about Nathan.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: But now, as Nathan made his way out to the
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: deck to wake his brother up to tell him on
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: the first day of the trip, you know, right as
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Nathan's taking the wheel that something's wrong with the boat
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: and I can't fix it. And also, Nathan was enormous,
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: like two hundred and fifty pounds, well over six feet tall.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: He was huge, this big physical presence, but he really
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: was not mechanically savvy at all, and so again Nathan
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: is sort of feeling like, you know, sorry, and also
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: maybe even second guessing whether or not it was even
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: a good idea for him to have come along. You know,
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: if he can't even fix a minor issue with the
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: throttle or the engine, you know, what's he doing here.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: But when Nathan woke up his younger brother and explained
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: the issue, Billy Joe was not upset.
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: He was like, okay, we'll go down.
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: Below and we'll take a look at the engine and
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: make sure everything is okay. However, when they went down
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: and Billy Joe opened up this hatch to look at
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: the engine, smoke immediately came out, and it was very
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: clear to Billy Joe anyways, that this was not like
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: a minor issue. Something seriously was wrong with the engine.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: This was a big problem. And so Billy Joe began cussing.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: You know, he's totally frustrated, and he just told Nathan to,
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you know, go down below and tell the other two
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: to wake up and come help. And so huge Nathan
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: turned around and went down into the bunk room down below,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: and the second he got down to that level of
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: the fishing boat. He just stopped because there was at
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: least a foot of water in the hallway and in
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: the bunk room when he went inside, and so Nathan
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: screamed at the other two fishermen to get up, and
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: so they got up and they're looking down they're seeing
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: all this water, and so they're starting to panic, and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: Nathan he goes back upstairs and he yells to Billy Joe,
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: who's dealing with this engine issue, that in addition to that,
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: it appears the boat is also sinking, and so Billy
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Joe is like, get buckets, go down there and start
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: bailing out the water.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna call Mayde And so Billy Joe runs back.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Up to the steering wheel, he grabs the radio, and
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Nathan and the others can hear him yelling over and
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: over again, may Day, may Day, may Day. And as
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: that was happening, Nathan and the other two fishermen put
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: on their life vests, grabbed buckets, and went down below
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: to begin manually bailing out the water.
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: But the second they got down.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: There, it was very obvious the water wherever it was
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: leaking into the ship was coming in way faster than
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: they could potentially be but they kept doing it, you know,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: getting the water out as fast as they could, trying
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: to stay calm. They can hear Billy getting more and
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: more frantic, yelling may Day over and over again.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: And then all the lights.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Inside of the ship began to flicker, and then they
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: went out and they were cast into total darkness.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: The engine basically had stopped and it was just silence,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: just the sound of water rushing into this boat.
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: Also, Billy Joe had stopped yelling may Day because clearly
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: the boat had lost power and the radio didn't work.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, before the power cut out, nobody had heard
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: any of Billy Joe's may Day calls, so nobody knew
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: where they were, nobody knew they were sinking, and without power,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: they had no.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: Way to communicate to anybody. They were totally alone.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: So Nathan, Billy Joe, and the others did the only
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: thing they could do. They went up to the main deck.
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: They grabbed their inflatable life raft. They blew it up,
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: chucked it over the side. They grabbed as many supplies
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: as they could put it in the raft. They all
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: made sure they had all their flotation on, and then
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: they jumped into the life raft, abandoning the scene king
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: fishing boat. Now, once all four men were safely inside
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: of this life raft, they were not as panicked as
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: you might think they would be because they had put
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: enough food and water in this raft to last them
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: at least several days. They all again had their life vesson,
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: so proper floatation, and even though nobody responded to those
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: may day calls, it wasn't impossible to think that maybe
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: somebody had heard the mayday calls and they just had
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: not called back.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: You know, maybe there was a rescue operation coming to
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: their location right now.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: They didn't know, but it felt plausible that they could
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: be rescued. They would just need to kind of ration
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: out their supplies and stay optimistic. However, their optimism quickly
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: faded when after only being in this life raft for
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: thirty minutes, right as the sun was starting to come up,
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Nathan began to hear a strange sound, and it was
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: coming from somewhere in the life raft. He couldn't quite
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: place the sound, and so at first he kind of
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: tried to ignore it, but then he noticed the life
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: raft was becoming softer, and then he realized the sound
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: he heard was a small hiss. The raft had a leak,
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: and even though the four men were able to trace
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: the sound of this leak to the actual puncture, they
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: didn't have a patch kit or any meaningful way to
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: patch up this hole, and so all they could do
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: was just put their hands over this leak and do
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: their best to seal it. But it didn't stop the
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: air from coming out. It just delayed it. And so
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: over the next hour again, as the sun is just
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: coming up on the second day of their big fishing trip,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: the raft finally completely deflated and all four men were
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: suddenly bobbing in the freezing cold ocean, surrounded by the
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: wreckage of their sinking fishing boat. And so eventually the
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: men grabbed the biggest piece of wood from the wreckage
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: that came floating by, and it was buoyant enough that
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: it kind of served as like a makeshift raft, but
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: it wasn't buoyant enough to hold all four of them
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: at once, which meant, you know, they had to take
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: turns resting on this raft, and then they'd have to
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: get back in the ocean and kind of wait their
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: turn again.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I mean, totally miserable, and as this was happening.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: They just stared at the hull of their sinking fishing
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: boat that was still poking up out of the ocean,
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: just drift farther and farther away from them.
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: Because the current was pretty strong.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: And as they watched their ship just kind of disappear
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: into the distance and they're just kind of drifting out
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: into the middle of the ocean.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: They were all just stunned into silence. They could not
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: believe how this had happened and so quickly, and also.
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: What were they going to do? I mean, they're in
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: the worst possible situation here. It just didn't seem possible
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: that they could actually survive this now. For reference, even
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: though the men had salvaged a lot of their food
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: and water from the sinking life raft and they had
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: their floatation devices on, that didn't protect them from hypothermia.
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: It wouldn't matter if it was super warm outside. What
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: mattered is the ocean was really cold. And because they
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: couldn't stay on that raft, they had to keep cycling through,
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: going back in the ocean over and over again. It
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: was just a matter of time before they would get hypothermia.
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: And sometimes hypothermia can kick in in just a couple
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: of hours. I mean, we're not talking days here.
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: This is going to be quick. And all these guys
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: knew that.
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: And so as these men were forced to have these
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: really morbid discussions around who's going to stay in the
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: water and who's going to stay on the raft, Nathan
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: made a drastic decision. Nathan being by far the biggest
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: physically out of the four men, he knew that if
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: he wasn't there right now, the other three could easily
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: fit on their makeshift raft and stay out of the water,
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: delaying hypothermia, thereby increasing the odds that they got rescued.
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: And so Nathan did what he always did, and he
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: turned to his younger brother, who he looked up to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: so much, who he just wanted to help all the time,
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: and Nathan told him, I'm gonna swim to the wreckage.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna swim back to the hull of our sinking ship,
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna fashion my own makeshift raft. That way,
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: you guys can have this one and I'll have my own,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: and we can all get out of here in one piece. Now,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: keep in mind, it was fairly obvious that the hull
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: of the sinking ship, which was barely visible near the horizon,
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: was at least three miles away, just from their own
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: rough calculations.
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: So this is a monster swim to get to that.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: And so immediately Billy, Joe and the other three were like, no,
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: that is a suicide mission.
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: You cannot do that. Swim to the hull. You're not
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: gonna make it now.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: Just to give some additional context here, if you're not
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: familiar with just how challenging swimming in the open ocean is,
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you my limited experience. So when
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: I was in the military, we had to do one
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: five and a half mile open ocean swim, and then
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: also we.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: Did a whole bunch of two mile ocean swims. And
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: even though we were allowed.
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: To use amazing wetsuits and fins, we had a swim
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: partner with us, We had the land nearby to use
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: as a reference to make sure we're going the right direction.
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: We had food, we had water, We were in great
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: shape even with all of that. Open ocean swims are miserable.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: You get all the salt in your mouth and your nose,
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: you start cramping and chafing. I mean, it takes hours
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: and hours and hours to swim some of these distances
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: and you're constantly fighting against the waves.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, it is an absolute.
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: Chore swimming in the open ocean again, even with all
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: the right stuff in place. And you got to remember,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Nathan is this big guy. You know, he's got this big,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: bulky life fest on that's going to make it hard
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: to swim. He doesn't have fins, he doesn't have a
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: wet suit, and he's got no landmarks around him, you know,
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: to make sure he's going in a straight line. Typically
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: when you're swimming in the ocean, you're constantly looking at
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: the land or some other landmark to make sure you're
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: going in the right direction. He wouldn't have had that.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: And also it's this unknown distance he's covering, and there
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: could be predators in the water. I mean, there's so
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: many barriers here that basically there was like a zero
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: percent chance this swim would be successful. But Nathan totally
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: understood what he was really doing here. He didn't really
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: know if he was actually gonna make it to that boat. Frankly,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: that was not really the point. What he was really
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: doing was choosing to sacrifice himself to potentially save his
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: brother and the other two and so even though they
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: were telling him, do not go, do not swim in
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: that direction, You're not gonna make it, Nathan just turned
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: to his brother Billy Joe and said, I.
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: Love you, and then he turned and began swimming.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: And by some miracle, eleven hours later, right as the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: sun was setting, Nathan was still alive and still swimming,
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: and he did reach the sinking boat, but still had
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: its hull poking out of the water. Now, when Nathan
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: got to the sinking ship, he was almost dead from
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: dehydration from hypothermia. I mean, he's miserable, but he's made
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: it to his destination, completely against all odds. And he
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: climbed up onto this hall and he found a spot
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: on the hull of the ship that supported his weight,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: and he managed to tie himself using some rope for
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: maybe his life fest to the hall, so he was
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: anchored in place. And then he didn't get to sleep
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: because the whole time he's thinking, you know, this thing
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: could sink under the water at any point, and it
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: will drag me with it because I'm tied to it.
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: Or he could just drift off of it if his
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: rigging kind of came undone, if he was asleep, and
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: so all night beyond exhausted, he's just holding onto this hall,
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: you know, not really sure what's going to happen, but
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: here he is, just waiting it out. And then finally,
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: when the sun came up that next morning, as Nathan
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: looked around him, he's in the middle of the ocean,
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: he sees in the direction he had come from, this
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: pillar of smoke coming up over the horizon, and so Nathan,
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: you know, he rubbed his eyes. He can't believe it.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: He's thinking, there's no way there's already a ship out here.
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: You know, we're in the middle of nowhere. But sure enough,
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: slowly but surely, this massive freighter ship came into view
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: that was very far away. You know, it's not near Nathan,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: but he can see.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: It clear as day.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: And where this ship was basically circling was roughly where
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: he believed his brother and the other two fishermen were
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: still floating. And so he's thinking, oh, my goodness, the
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: freighter is going to save them, and then it's going
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: to come save me. And so Nathan just clung onto
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: the hall and watched as this freighter made these big,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: slow loops right around that same area and then the
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: freighter came to a full stop and it appeared to
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: lower something down into the water.
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: It seemed very much like a full blown rescue operation.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: And then about three hours after he first spotted this freighter,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: the freighter began to move again, and this time directly
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: towards Nathan. Nathan was so relieved he could practically cry,
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: but instead what he did is he thought, they're going
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: to be here in a minute. I'm finally just going
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to close my eyes and go to sleep, and so
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: he put his head down on the hall, looked one
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: more time at the freighter, and then closed his eyes.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: Now Nathan would be rescued, but it would not be
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: by that huge freighter ship. Nathan event had opened his
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: eyes after closing them for a second, and he saw
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: this freighter that had been coming straight for him at
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: some point had kind of deviated and gone in the
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: wrong direction and then vanished over the horizon, never to
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: be seen again. And it would take three more days
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: before a separate ship happened to find Nathan. They scooped
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: him up, and they rescued him. But even though Nathan
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: had been really crushed when that freighter had gone the
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: wrong way, he held on to this idea that you know,
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: that freighter had clearly rescued his brother and the other
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: two fishermen, and certainly, even if they couldn't find him,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: they would go back and they would tell the authorities
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: that Nathan is out there. You know, he swam back
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: to the hull of the ship. We got to go
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: find him, and so certainly a rescue effort would be
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: on the way. And it was true, a rescue boat
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: had come out and found Nathan, so.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Everything seemed to be tracking.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: And when Nathan woke up inside of his hospital room
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: back on land, his friends and family were all by
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: his bedside, and he's looking around. He can't believe he survived.
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: And the first thing he asks is, how's my brother,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: how are the other two fishermen? And why didn't that
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: freighter pick me up too? And at this all the
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: people in the room just kind of looked at Nathan
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: with a very confused look on their face, and eventually
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: they asked him a question that made Nathan burst out
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: in tears.
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: They said, what freighter. It would turn out Billy, Joe.
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: And the other two fishermen were still missing at this point,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: and nobody had heard a thing about some big freighter
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: in the area. As far as anybody knew, at least
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: in Nathan's family, that freighter.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Ship did not exist.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: The search for Billy Joe and the remaining two crew
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: members went on for weeks and weeks, and while the
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: active search out in the ocean was going on, the
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: Coastguard and police were searching through every record they could
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: possibly find of basically any ship that was even roughly
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: in the area where Nathan and the others had been.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: But despite looking everywhere, there was basically no sign that
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: any ship of any kind had been there beyond the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: rescue operation that eventually scooped up Nathan, and so again
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: it seemed very likely that that freighter ship didn't exist,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: and you know, it was possible that Nathan, in his
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: very deteriorated state, had maybe hallucinated it. Although Nathan was
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: adamant he definitely saw that ship, it did not feel like,
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: you know, a multi hour long hallucination.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: It felt like he was watching a ship.
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: He was sure of it, but again there was just
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: no proof, and so nobody knew what to think of that.
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: And then eventually, even though.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: There was this huge search going on, there was just
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: no sign of Billy Joe or the others, and so
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: eventually the search was called off, and unfortunately, the presumption
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: was Billy Joe and the other two were now dead.
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Five months later, on the afternoon of October fifth, nineteen
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: ninety the phone rang inside of Nathan's sisters home. Now
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: by this point, the victims' families had all tried to
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: sort of restart their lives following this tragedy, but deep down,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: none of them could truly accept that Billy Joe and
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the other two fishermen were just gone.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: They just couldn't do it. It was too soon.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: It felt like, you know, any moment they were going
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: to get news that, you know, they had been rescued
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: by some freightership or something. And so anytime a phone
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: rang in any of these families' homes, it's like they
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: would rush to the phone with a sense of hope
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: that this time it's going to be different, their loved
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: ones are going to be okay, only to obviously be
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: crushed when that was not the case. But on this day,
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: on October fifth, that phone call that came through in
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: Nathan's sister's home, that one was different. When Nathan's mother
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: picked up this phone call in Nathan's sister's home. She
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: answered it and said hello, and right away she thought, oh,
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: this has to be a wrong number, because the person
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: who was calling was speaking in rapid Spanish and she
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: didn't understand what they were saying.
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: But as she was about to hang up.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: The caller, intermittently throughout their rapid Spanish, began saying something
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: in English that Nathan's mother could understand, and it totally
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: shocked her. The caller kept saying Nathan's sister's name over
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: and over again, followed by Nathan's sister's phone number, like
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: on repeat, the name the phone number in English, over
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and over and over again, and Nathan's mom is so
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: caught off guard by this that she just listened, not
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: even sure what to do. And then before she could
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: ask any follow up questions, the caller cut the line
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: and the phone call was over. And then a few
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: minutes later, another phone rang and a home that was
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: not far away from Nathan's sisters home, and this other
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: home belonged to the boat owner who Billy Joe had
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: rented the fishing boat from that unfortunately sank and caused
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: this whole tragedy, and so this boat owner, he picks
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: up the phone, he answers it, and just like the
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: call that had come through in Nathan's sister's house, this
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: call was the same. It was somebody calling speaking rapid Spanish,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: and the boat owner was about to hang up when
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: he heard something that he understood because it was in English,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: and what he heard was his own name followed by
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: his phone number, over and over and over again, basically
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: the same type of call that Nathan's mom had just heard.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: And then before the boat owner could ask any questions,
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: the line went dead. Now, one phone call like this
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: you could chalk up to maybe a prank or a
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: wrong number, or just a really weird coincidence. But to
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: have those two calls happened within minutes of each other
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: and basically take on the exact same form but different
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: names in different phone numbers, it just seemed way too
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: coincidental to not be somehow connected to the missing fisherman.
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: Because the link between beeen, these two households where these
• 54:01
  Speaker 1: calls came in was the doomed fishing trip, and these
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: calls did not stop. Every few weeks after this first
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: time these calls came through, the phone would ring in
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Nathan's sister's house or in the boat owner's house, and
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: it would be the same thing all over again, rapid Spanish,
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: followed by either Nathan's sister's name and then her phone number,
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: or the boat owner's name and his phone number, just
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: like that for weeks and weeks and weeks. And so
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: as soon as this started happening, Nathan's family and the
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: boat owner they figured out they were both getting these
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: weird calls, and they contacted authorities, which kind of restarted
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: the search for Billy Joe and the missing fishermen, because
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: now it seemed very plausible that maybe Nathan really had
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: seen a freighter and that Frader really had picked up
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: Billy Joe and the others, and you know, maybe they
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: had been taken to another country, a Spanish speaking country,
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: and maybe people were trying to get in touch with
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: the families now to get them back home, or of course,
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: there could be a negative side to this, that maybe
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: they were captured by some rogue vessel and were being
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: held by these people who were calling.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's any number of th but it made.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Authorities wonder, you know, hey, what's going on here, and
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: so authorities got in touch with Mexican authorities and other
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: Spanish speaking country authorities and tried to figure out if
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: there was any chance that there was, you know, a
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: vessel out there around the time that Billy Joe and
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: the others were missing, that in theory could have maybe
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: illegally been in that area or something. But despite this
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: kind of exhaustive effort to kind of look again to
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: see if maybe there was a freighter in.
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: That area, there was just no evidence that there was.
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: It made no sense.
• 55:28
  Speaker 1: But the authorities said, look, we have no idea what
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: these calls are about. We still do not think that
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: freighter or any ship that even resembled a freighter was
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: out there. We still believed that Billy Joe and the
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: others are dead. But as for the victims' families, they
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: just didn't buy that. They really believed that these strange
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: phone calls were somehow connected to Billy Joe and the
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: missing fishermen. Specifically, these calls must signal that Billy Joe
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: and the others were still alive.
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: They just had no evidence to support that.
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: That is until March sixth, nineteen ninety one, so almost
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: a year after the doomed fishing vessel sank and Billy
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: Joe and the others went missing. On that day, the
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: phone rang inside of Nathan's sisters home and she answered it,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: and it was the voice who spoke in rapid Spanish,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: but this time they spoke in perfect English and all
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: they said was I'm bringing him home.
• 56:16
  Speaker 2: And then the line went.
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: Dead and Nathan's sister screamed and she yelled for her
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: husband to call police. They contacted the authorities, and again
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: it kind of brought back to life the search for Billy.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: Joe and the missing fishermen.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: And then after this call, there was a near constant
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: presence of authorities on the Georgia coastline, basically looking out
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: to the water, waiting, hoping for Billy Joe and the
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: others to return. But unfortunately they never did. And following
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: that last phone call where the caller spoke in perfect
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: English and said I'm bringing him home.
• 56:45
  Speaker 2: After that the call stopped.
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: And so to this day, no one has ever been
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: able to actually figure out what happened to Billy Joe
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: and the other two fishermen. They are presumed dead at
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: this point, but there's this one nagging question that surrounds
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: the whole story, and.
• 56:59
  Speaker 2: That is, what did Nathan see?
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Was that actually afraider picking up Billy, Joe and the others,
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: And if so, what did they do with them?
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: Or was Nathan just hallucinating.
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: It's entirely possible, but Nathan has always said he knows
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: what he saw and that was not a hallucination. As
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: for the families of the victims, they still firmly believe
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: that their loved ones are still out there and someday
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: they will come back home, and the families just hope
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: they're alive long enough to be there for the reunion.
• 57:29
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• 57:31
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• 57:34
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