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  Speaker 1: Hey guys, welcome back to the campfire. I have another
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  Speaker 1: awesome story to share with you tonight. So when I
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  Speaker 1: was a kid, I.
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  Speaker 2: Used to love reading this book called Scary Stories to
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  Speaker 2: Tell in the Dark, which is this really frankly not
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  Speaker 2: kid friendly, scary story book that's marketed for kids, but
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  Speaker 2: it's like terrifying. The stories in there are like they
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  Speaker 2: kept me up at night. I mean, they were really
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  Speaker 2: disturbing stories. They were fictional, but they rocked me as
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  Speaker 2: a kid. And when I read the story I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to share with you tonight, it just really brought me
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  Speaker 2: back to that feeling I got when I used to
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  Speaker 2: read those stories as a child. This story tonight feels
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  Speaker 2: like it belongs in that book, except Tonight's story is
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  Speaker 2: not fiction like the book was.
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  Speaker 1: This is a true story.
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  Speaker 2: This story took place in Malaysia in the nineteen seventies,
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  Speaker 2: and even though when you first hear it, it's almost
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  Speaker 2: going to sound like urban legend when you get to
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  Speaker 2: the end of the story. So the end of this episode,
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  Speaker 2: I will share the very famous photograph that is associated
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  Speaker 2: with this story and is frankly the reason people continue
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  Speaker 2: to talk about the story because this photograph sort of
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  Speaker 2: makes it impossible for this to be an urban legend.
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  Speaker 1: I'll show you that photograph.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to horrify you, and then you can be
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  Speaker 2: let's get into tonight's story. One summer night in the
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  Speaker 2: nineteen seventies, a young woman named Hannah was sitting next
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  Speaker 2: to her husband at a blackjack table inside of the
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  Speaker 2: Genting Highlands Casino, which was this huge casino in central Malaysia.
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  Speaker 2: The room they were in was bright, it was loud,
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  Speaker 2: there was people everywhere. You know, there's cigarette smoke hovering
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  Speaker 2: in the air, lots of drinking and chatting and laughing
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  Speaker 2: and gambling. And so as Hannah is sitting in this environment,
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  Speaker 2: she was doing her best not to let her nerves
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  Speaker 2: get the best of.
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  Speaker 1: Her, but she couldn't help it. I mean, she was
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  Speaker 1: really feeling anxious because.
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  Speaker 2: Her husband had just bet all their chips on this
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  Speaker 2: one hand. So her husband had been dealt as two
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  Speaker 2: cards and they totaled nineteen, which was basically good because
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  Speaker 2: in blackjack, you're trying to get to twenty one. You
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  Speaker 2: want your cards in total to equal twenty one, but
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  Speaker 2: you don't want to go over.
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  Speaker 1: To lose, and so nineteen is pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: But you're playing really against the dealer, and so basically
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  Speaker 2: it's between you and the dealer who can get closest
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  Speaker 2: to twenty one without going over. So the dealer had
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  Speaker 2: two cards. One must face up and one was face down.
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  Speaker 2: The face upcard was a ten, and so Hannah is
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  Speaker 2: anxiously waiting to see this other card flipped over, just
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  Speaker 2: praying it's not a ten, because that would give him
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  Speaker 2: twenty and that would beat you know, her husband's nineteen,
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  Speaker 2: and they would lose. And so the dealer he flips
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  Speaker 2: over this other card and it's a four. So now
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  Speaker 2: he's got fourteen, and so that's good. It means Hannah
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  Speaker 2: and her husband they're still in the lead here. But
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  Speaker 2: the dealer will keep on hitting, so adding more cards
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  Speaker 2: to the pile here, adding to their total score until
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  Speaker 2: they either hit seventeen at least, or until they beat you,
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  Speaker 2: or until they bust. So they're going to keep on
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  Speaker 2: drawing more cards. And so the dealer draws another card.
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  Speaker 2: He puts it face down and it's an eight. And
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  Speaker 2: so now collective the dealer has twenty two. They've gone
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  Speaker 2: over twenty one. They busted, and Hannah and her husband
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  Speaker 2: have won. And so Hannah, she turns to her husband
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  Speaker 2: and she's overjoyed. I mean, they've just gambled all their
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  Speaker 2: money and they've won. I mean, this is a huge win.
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  Speaker 2: And Hannah and her husband, they didn't really come for
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  Speaker 2: money here. I mean, they're very modest people. They had
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  Speaker 2: saved up money for this trip. They'd really wanted to
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  Speaker 2: come to this casino for a long time, and now
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  Speaker 2: it was like their luck was just incredible.
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  Speaker 1: They're having this unbelievable run.
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  Speaker 2: They had won a bunch of money beforehand, and now
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  Speaker 2: they had just won this hand and they doubled their money,
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  Speaker 2: Like this is incredible. And so at this point, Hannah
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  Speaker 2: and her husband they take all their chips. They leave
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  Speaker 2: the blackjack table. Everyone's like so excited for them, like
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  Speaker 2: the energy is awesome. And so Hannah and her husband
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  Speaker 2: they make their way over to the cashier and they
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  Speaker 2: cash all their chips. They get all this cash, and
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  Speaker 2: Hanna's talking to her husband like this is awesome, Like
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  Speaker 2: we were gonna have to drive home tonight. Let's get
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  Speaker 2: a room here, Let's use some of this money and
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  Speaker 2: like stay at the last I have a hotel they have,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe we can go back to the casino tomorrow. Let's
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  Speaker 2: make a vacation out of this. But after cashing all
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  Speaker 2: their chips, Hanna's husband he didn't seem too inclined to
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  Speaker 2: go spend the money on a hotel room or a
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  Speaker 2: restaurant or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: He told her.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, I don't know, like I feel really lucky,
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  Speaker 2: like I'm gonna roll here.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to just like be done.
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  Speaker 2: I think I should go play slots and try to
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  Speaker 2: win a little bit more money.
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  Speaker 1: I think we can we can win more money.
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  Speaker 2: And Hanna's like, are you crazy, Like this is the
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  Speaker 2: most money we've ever won ever, like this is this
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  Speaker 2: is a once in a lifetime opportunity. If we stay
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  Speaker 2: and continue to gamble, we're gonna we're just gonna lose
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  Speaker 2: the money. Like, let's let's take the win, let's let's
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  Speaker 2: get the hotel room.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just do that.
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  Speaker 2: But Hanna's husband, he was not having it, and he
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  Speaker 2: literally just took their money and was like, no, I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna go do slots now, and he walked
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  Speaker 2: over to a slot machine.
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  Speaker 1: And Han's like, oh my god. She follows her husband
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  Speaker 1: over to the slot machine, and before long he's he's playing.
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  Speaker 2: The slots and it's it's not going well, and Hannah's
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  Speaker 2: trying to convince him to stop, but he just he
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't have it, and he was so committed. He just
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  Speaker 2: kept going and going, and wouldn't you know it, after
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  Speaker 2: two hours of this, all the money was gone. Well,
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  Speaker 2: actually it was not entirely all gone. He still had
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of money that they had intentionally set
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  Speaker 2: aside just to cover the hotel because they needed a
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  Speaker 2: place to stay that night, and they had stayed later
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  Speaker 2: at the casino, and so literally they are down to
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  Speaker 2: just enough to stay in the hotel. And so at
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  Speaker 2: this point, Hannah, she's already accepted that they've lost all
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  Speaker 2: their winnings, and she's telling her husband, like, please, let's
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  Speaker 2: just walk away.
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  Speaker 1: Let's use this money. Let's just stay in the hotel.
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  Speaker 1: It is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: And they're about to leave when her husband's like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: one more turns around, puts it in the slot machine,
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  Speaker 2: pulls the lever loose. Now they literally have no money.
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  Speaker 2: They have actually no more money. They can't get a hotel.
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  Speaker 2: It's the middle of the night, late late late. They
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  Speaker 2: have nowhere to stay, and now they have to drive home,
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  Speaker 2: and the drive is going to be awful. Like Hannah
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  Speaker 2: is furious with her husband. Her husband feels like, ah,
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  Speaker 2: it's just bad luck.
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  Speaker 1: It's not my fault. But Hanna's like, it is your fault.
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  Speaker 1: You should have left.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just this awful, awful exit from the casino,
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  Speaker 2: like this is about to be the worst ride home ever.
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  Speaker 2: About twenty minutes later, Hannah was sitting in the passenger
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  Speaker 2: seat and her husband was driving, and they're cruising down
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  Speaker 2: this road. It's again, it's the middle of the night.
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  Speaker 2: They passed no cars as they're driving. They're in this
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  Speaker 2: desolate stretch on their way back to their home. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, as expected, this has been a treacherous ride
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 1: They fought at the beginning, and now they're just they're
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  Speaker 1: not talking.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're driving along and Hannah's just looking out
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  Speaker 2: the window at all the trees. It's very jungly and
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  Speaker 2: swampy off to the side on either side of the road,
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  Speaker 2: and they're just they're driving.
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  Speaker 1: Along, and at some point, as Hannah is just desperate
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  Speaker 1: to get home, she just wants to go to bed.
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  Speaker 2: She doesn't even care about the money at this point,
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  Speaker 2: she just literally wants to get in her bed. They're
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  Speaker 2: driving along when the car starts to sputter, like it's
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  Speaker 2: running out of gas, and immediately Hannah looks over at
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  Speaker 2: her husband like are you kidding me? And her husband's
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  Speaker 2: looking over at her like knowing that he's gonna bring
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  Speaker 2: even more wrath down on himself from his wife, and
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  Speaker 2: he's just like, I'm sorry, Look, I didn't know it
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  Speaker 2: was that low, Like I didn't know the tank was
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  Speaker 2: that low.
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  Speaker 1: And before long he had to pull over.
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  Speaker 2: On the side of the road because their car was
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  Speaker 2: out of gas, Like they couldn't go any farther.
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  Speaker 1: And so Hannah, as the car has come to a stop.
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  Speaker 2: On the side of the road, she just looks at
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  Speaker 2: her husband and she's say, wow, like this night really
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get any worse, Like, are you kidding me? We
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  Speaker 2: are stranded in the middle of nowhere, We got no money, what.
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  Speaker 1: Are we gonna do? And so Hanna's husband, you know, he.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously knew this was not good, Like he knows he's
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  Speaker 2: the one that was supposed to put gas in the
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  Speaker 2: car and he didn't. You know, he's sort of been
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  Speaker 2: the architect behind this whole disaster of a night here
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  Speaker 2: with his decision to keep on gambling. And so he
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  Speaker 2: just says to Hannah, look, you stay here, just stay
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  Speaker 2: in the car.
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  Speaker 1: I have a gas can.
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  Speaker 2: I'll just walk walk to the nearest gas station. I'll
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  Speaker 2: get some gas, I'll bring it back, I'll fill it up.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be home soon. We can't be that far away anyways, Like,
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  Speaker 2: it can't be that far away, So just just stay here.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go get gas. And so Hannah's like, okay, fine,
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  Speaker 1: go get gas.
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  Speaker 2: And so Hanna just stays in the car and her
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  Speaker 2: husband gets out. He goes in the back of the car,
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  Speaker 2: he gets the gas can, and then before long, Hannah
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  Speaker 2: watches as her husband walks ahead of the car and
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  Speaker 2: disappears into the darkness.
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  Speaker 2: walked off, she knows it's going to be at least,
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  Speaker 2: you know, thirty forty minutes, you know, before he gets
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  Speaker 2: gas and comes back. And you know, she's exhausted, and
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  Speaker 2: so she makes sure all the doors are locked, and
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  Speaker 2: then she leans back her seat and she just tries
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  Speaker 2: to go to sleep, and pretty quickly she does doze off.
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  Speaker 2: But then at some point, you know, maybe five to
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  Speaker 2: ten minutes later, she just kind of inexplicably wakes up.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there was no reason why she woke up.
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  Speaker 2: She just opened her eyes and she, you know, for
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  Speaker 2: a second, was a little bit disoriented. You know, when
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  Speaker 2: you fall asleep for a few minutes like that, you'll
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  Speaker 2: kind of wake up like what just happened? She disoriented,
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  Speaker 2: and she remembered, oh, that's right. We had this horrible night.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the casino went horribly. We ran out of gas.
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  Speaker 2: So that's right, like I'm living out this nightmare. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now I know where I am. And so after getting
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  Speaker 2: her bearings, Hanna just rolled over in her seat and
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  Speaker 2: tried to go back to sleep, but this time, after
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  Speaker 2: closing her eyes, you know, after just a few seconds,
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  Speaker 2: she heard this loud, thumping noise on.
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  Speaker 1: The roof of the car, and it was loud enough
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  Speaker 1: that she opened her eyes back up.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, there's no sunroof or anything, so she
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  Speaker 2: couldn't see what it was. And it was so dark
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  Speaker 2: outside and there were no street lights out there that
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't just look out the window and see what
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  Speaker 2: it was. But she knew her husband could not possibly
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  Speaker 2: be back yet, and even if he was, why would
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  Speaker 2: he be banging on the roof. But then she remembered
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  Speaker 2: they had parked right next to this jungly swampy area
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  Speaker 2: right off the side of the road, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: there were probably some low hanging branches, and it was
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  Speaker 2: entirely possible that the wind had caused a branch to
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  Speaker 2: just bang against the roof of the car, and so
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  Speaker 2: that's what she assumed it was. And after realizing that,
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  Speaker 2: she just got comfortable again and closed her eyes. But
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  Speaker 2: then a few seconds later, she heard another thump on
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  Speaker 2: the roof of the car, and again, you know, she
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  Speaker 2: instinctively looked out the window and she's sort of like
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what it is, but she can't
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  Speaker 2: see anything.
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  Speaker 1: There's no sign of her husband walking up the road.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing, and.
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  Speaker 2: So again she just tells herself, Okay, again, it's just
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  Speaker 2: got to be this branch. But after hearing it a
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  Speaker 2: second time, the thumping sound, it.
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  Speaker 1: Began to sort of persist. It's not not super loud,
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  Speaker 1: but it's pretty consistent. It's like a thumping.
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  Speaker 2: Sound on the roof of the car, and it did
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  Speaker 2: basically sound like a branch hitting the roof, but it's
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  Speaker 2: just it now, it's just a nuisance. And more than anything,
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  Speaker 2: she's just frustrated because it's loud enough that she's not
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  Speaker 2: going to be able to sleep, and so she's.
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  Speaker 1: Not frightened by it.
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  Speaker 2: She's a little bit, you know, unnerved by it, perhaps
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  Speaker 2: because it's the middle of the night she's all alone.
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  Speaker 1: But for the most part, she's just like, ah, great,
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  Speaker 1: now I can't sleep.
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  Speaker 2: And so she's just sitting in her car and the
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  Speaker 2: thumping is continuing, and she's just staring straight ahead.
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  Speaker 1: And she knew, you know, she was sort of being
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  Speaker 1: a little cowardly.
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  Speaker 2: She figured I probably should just get out and just
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  Speaker 2: confirm this really is a branch. But there was just
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  Speaker 2: some part of her that's like, I'm in the middle
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  Speaker 2: of nowhere, it's the middle of the night. It's a
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  Speaker 2: little bit creepy, so I'm not going to do that.
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  Speaker 2: So she's just looking straight ahead, really waiting for her husband,
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  Speaker 2: and so thump, thump, thump. She's just looking straight ahead.
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  Speaker 2: And then a little while later, she doesn't see her husband,
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  Speaker 2: but she sees headlights appear that are coming in her direction.
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  Speaker 2: And to this point, she hadn't seen a single other
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  Speaker 2: car since they had been on this road basically, or
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  Speaker 2: at least since they had pulled over, you know, because
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  Speaker 2: they were out of gas.
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  Speaker 1: She had not seen another car.
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  Speaker 2: And so here comes a car approaching, and she's thinking, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's got to be my husband. He must have found
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  Speaker 2: someone who, you know, heard about our story, and he's
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  Speaker 2: got gas, just giving him a ride up here to
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  Speaker 2: come drop him off.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna fill up the car. We're gonna be out
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  Speaker 1: of here in a second, thank goodness.
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  Speaker 2: And so Hannah, she doesn't get out of the car.
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  Speaker 2: She just sits there, you know, waiting for this car
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  Speaker 2: to approach. And the car as it gets closer and closer,
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  Speaker 2: it appears to slow down, and it's too dark to
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  Speaker 2: see you know, who's in the car, whether it's her
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  Speaker 2: husband or not. But this car is clearly slowing down,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it appears to recognize her car and where
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  Speaker 2: she is.
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  Speaker 1: And she's expecting at any point.
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  Speaker 2: This car is gonna fully stop and her husband's going
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  Speaker 2: to get out, and so she's just waiting and the
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  Speaker 2: car is getting closer and it's slowing down. But then,
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  Speaker 2: sort of inexplicably, right as this car is very close
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  Speaker 2: to her car, the car just peels out and speeds
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  Speaker 2: down the road just away from her as fast as
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  Speaker 2: they could.
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  Speaker 1: Go, and then they're gone.
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  Speaker 2: And so immediately Hannah's like, Okay, one, clearly not my husband,
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  Speaker 2: so that's disappointing, But two.
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  Speaker 1: Like, what was that? Why did they do that?
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  Speaker 2: Why did they slow down and speed up like that?
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  Speaker 2: And the whole time this is going on, it's just
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: constant thumping on the roof of her car, which by
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: now she's almost zoned out, but it's it's persisting. And
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: so at this point Hannah went from being basically annoyed
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: with the situation to now starting to feel a little
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: bit freaked out.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, her husband's still not back.
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: It's been at this point kind of a while since
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: he left, and she doesn't really know how far the
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: nearest gas station's going to be or how long it's
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: going to take him. But she's starting to think like
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: it should be soon, he should be getting back here.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: And this weirdness with the car speeding off like that,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: that just that wasn't normal. And then also there was
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: just this constant thumping on the roof of her car,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: and she again had told herself it was a branch,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: but she's starting to wonder like is it, but like
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: what else could it be?
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: And so now Hannah is.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Sitting here staring out, you know, into the darkness in
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: front of her, like desperately wishing her husband would show
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: up like any second here, like please like come out
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: of the darkness and rescue me, because this is getting
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: really uncomfortable. The time kept on ticking on and her
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: husband didn't show up, and the thumping continued, and no
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: other cars came through, and so Hannah slowly began to
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: worry that maybe her husband got lost, like maybe he's
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: he's not able to find where she is.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Is she just like stranded out here, like what's going on?
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: And so as Hannah is sort of beginning to spiral,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: like as her thoughts are beginning to spiral, and she's
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: getting more and more worried, she started to give half
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: a thought to leaving the car and forget about what's
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: happening with the roof, like I'm gonna go find my husband,
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: like she thought about going and looking for him, but
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: then she thought, like what's gonna happen is I'm gonna
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: get out, I'm gonna go look for him, and we're
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: gonna like pass each other in the dark.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna know I'm looking for him. I'm not
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: gonna find him. And now he's gonna be back.
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: At the car and I'm missing, and so I'm just
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: gonna create more problems. And so she she tells herself
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: that really the only thing she can do that's responsible
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: is just stay put. And so there she stays, and
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: the thumping continues, and her husband continues not to show up,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: and like the time as it's going by, it's like
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: agonizingly slow, and now she's getting really worked up that
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: like you know, she's being watched or something like she's
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: really starting to get paranoid when all of a sudden,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: down the road she sees something and it's really a
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: huge relief when she sees it. At first, she sees
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: more headlights, and at first she's thinking, oh, thank goodness,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: this is going to be my husband, Like, this is
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: a car coming up the road. He's gonna be in
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: there this time. He's gonna get out of here. He's
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: got the gas, We're gonna get out of here. But
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: as the headlights appeared over the horizon coming towards her,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: she realized it was not an ordinary car.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: It was not just headlights. There were also lights on
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: top of this vehicle. It was a police car.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: And so this police car is cruising down the road,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: and you know, Hanna's thinking, well, you know, it could
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: still be my husband. You know, maybe he got a
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: ride from the police. But then she's thinking, oh, my goodness, like,
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: has something happened to him? Are they coming to tell
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: me that something's happened to my husband? Ah, Like, she's
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: having all these terrible thoughts. And so this police car
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: they come to a stop on the other side of
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: the road, and at first Hannah is just like unsure
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: what she should even be doing, like should she get
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: out to greet them, should she wait here? But as
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: she's just staring across the road at the two officers
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: that are in this vehicle, and she doesn't see her
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: husband in there.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: She sees the officer that's closest to her, the driver.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: He gets out of the car and he stands on
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the road and then he draws his pistol and he
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: aims it at her, like he's aiming the gun at
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: her and the car she's in, and she's like, what
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: is going on here? And so she just freezes, doesn't
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: say or do anything. And the other officer in the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: passenger side, so on the far side of the car,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: he gets out of the cruiser as well, but he's
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: got a megaphone in his hand, and so through this
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: megaphone he kind of leans out and he barks three
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: orders to Hanna.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: The first order is get out of the car.
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: The second order is come over to our car, and
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: the third order is.
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Don't look back.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: And so at this point Hannah realized that the first
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: officer who stepped out of the car with the gun,
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: he wasn't aiming at her. He was aiming at the
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: roof of her car. That's where his gun was pointed
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: right now. And so between that and the fact that
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: she's been listening to this thumping sound for the last
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: like forty five minutes, assuming it was a branch, she's
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: now realizing there's no way it's a branch, Like she
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: sort of sensed it couldn't be, like it had to
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: be something else. But she had sort of convinced herself, oh,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: it's a tree branch.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Now she knows it's not.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: And so she had no idea what could possibly be
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: on the roof of her car, but she knew whatever
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: it was, it had.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: To be bad.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: And so Hannah all she wants to do is get
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: out of this car and go over there. She doesn't
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: want to be here anymore. I mean, this whole thing
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: has been awful, and now she's terrified. But she's like frozen,
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: like what does she do? Like what's going on? But
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: again the officer with the bullhorn comes and says, hey,
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: get out of the car, come over to us, and
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: don't look back right now, get up, go, And so
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: Hannah is like, I just gotta go, And so she
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: opens her door and as fast as she can she
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: gets out.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: She doesn't look back.
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: She banks herund the car and across the street she goes,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and the whole time she's thinking, oh, something's gonna grab me.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: But she gets to the cop car, she throws open
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the door and she jumps inside.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: And at first she adheres to their orders. She doesn't
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: look back as they told her to. She didn't look back.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: But now that she's like safely inside the cop car,
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: there's you know, two officers protecting her, one with a
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: gun drawn pointed at her car.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: She couldn't help herself. She had to see what was
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: on the roof of her car. So she went over
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to the window and.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: She looked, and as soon as she saw what was
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: on the roof of her car, she just starts screaming.
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: And at the same time, the officer who was still
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: standing out there with his gun drawn, he be just
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: firing non stop at her car. And so Hannah, she's screams.
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: She ducks down behind the door. She can't see anything.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: There's just this constant barrage of gunfire.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: You know, blasting the car and whatever was on the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: roof of the car.
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: And then you know, Hannah, she's tucked down and she's
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: thinking this is a nightmare, Like, how is this real.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: She hears the sound of that officer who was shooting
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: and the other officer. They get out of the car.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: She hears them run across the street towards her car.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: The shooting kind of stops, and it's just like the
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: shuffling of feet, and then she hears this like loud
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: thumping sound is something really heavy, like slammed into the pavement.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: And then she heard the sound of.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Something big, like running off into the jungle, into the
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: tree line, like trees just you know, moving all around.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: And then there's just silence, and then a moment later,
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: she hears the sound of the officers coming back across
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: the street. She's still tucked down, she can't look out
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the window. She just hears the sound of their footsteps.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: It's definitely them, and as they're getting closer, she can
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: hear them like trying to make sense of what they
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: just saw, like they don't even know what.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: They just saw.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: And at some point Hanna's door opens up, and on
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the other side it's the officer who had the megaphone, and.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: He just looks ashen faced.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: He's very shaken up, and he begins to try to
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: explain what he's just seen.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: But it's clear he can't even describe it.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: And as he's trying to do it, like Hannah, she's crying,
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: she's so upset, and she just tells him like, don't
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: even tell me, Like I I saw it too. When
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: Hannah did look back, So when she went against the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: police's orders and she looked out the window back at
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: her car, what she saw at first, like didn't even compute.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: She saw that clearly, there was no branch striking the
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: roof of her car. What she saw was a woman.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: There was a woman on the roof of her car.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: This woman is like dirty and her hair is maden,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and it was like kind of covering like the front
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: of her head, like she's just like weirdly positioned on
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: the roof of the car.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Like that clearly was what was making the.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Banging sound for the forty five minutes or so that
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: she was over there. And so that alone is like horrific.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: But then in this instant that Hannah had looked over
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: and seen this woman, the woman she kind of appeared
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: to be eating something like that was the gesticulation that
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: she was doing. It sort of looked like she was
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: eating something. And she looked up for a second as
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Hannah is staring across the road, and her matted hair
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: kind of parted, and the woman is looking right at Hannah.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And there's blood all over her mouth and her chin.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: And then Hannah saw what she was eating, and.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: That's the thing that made her start screaming and prompted
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the police to start shooting. The woman was chewing on
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Hannah's husband's severed head. And so as soon as the
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: police open fire, this cannibal woman lets go of the
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: head and it falls to the pavement and it makes
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: that loud thumping sound that Hannah would recall hearing as
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: she's crouched down, you know, wishing this was some nightmare.
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: And this woman, she leaps off the roof of the car,
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: you know, under a hail of gunfire. She lands on
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: all fours and like an animal, she gallops into the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: tree line and vanishes. And so the two officers they
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: ran across the street after her, but quickly realized like
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: she was gone, and so they called for backup. Backup arrives,
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: and you know, all these officers go out into the
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: jungle and they can't find this woman. She's gone, but
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: they would find the rest of the body so the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: rest of the husband's body was actually not far from
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: the vehicle. It was just laying out on the side
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: of the road, sort of tucked up against the tree line.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: And so today, because this woman was never caught, there's
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: not really a good explanation of what actually happened. The
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: only evidence we have is that obviously Hannah's husband died.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: We have his body, he was decapitated.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: We have, you know, strong witness testimony, not just from Hanna,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: but from these two police officers, and in some ways
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the backup officers that also showed up, but they there.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Sort of after the fact.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: But there's also one other piece of evidence that really
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: is the sole reason in some ways that this story
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: lives on and that we're still talking about it today,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: and it's because it's far and away the most compelling
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: piece of evidence we have that this really happened the
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: way Hannah and the officer said it is this picture
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: of the woman on the roof of the car moments
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: before the police open fire. All right, thank you all
• 25:34
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