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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. At the end of December,
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Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four, in a little village in northern.
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Speaker 2: India, a young woman named Sumitra.
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Speaker 1: Had her first child with her husband, and right away
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Speaker 1: Sumitra fell in love with her little baby boy. She
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Speaker 1: had always wanted a baby, and now that she had one, she.
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Speaker 2: Carried him with her everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Strapped to her chest, and anytime she had a free
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Speaker 1: hand from cooking or housework, she would use it to
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Speaker 1: pat his head or tickle his feet. Life was not
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Speaker 1: easy for anyone in Sumitra's village, which was located just
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Speaker 1: south of the Himalayan Mountains along the Genghis River.
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Speaker 2: Sumitra's village was very poor.
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Speaker 1: People lived in mud huts with thatched roofs, They had
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Speaker 1: no electricity, and basically no one had any formal education.
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Speaker 1: As for Sumitra, her life was especially challenging even relative
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Speaker 1: to her peers, because when she was very young, her
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Speaker 1: mother died and then her father had to go away
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Speaker 1: all the time for work, and so she was alone
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Speaker 1: a lot and basically was raised by a cousin. And now,
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Speaker 1: even though she was married, her husband also had to
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Speaker 1: travel quite a bit for work, and so Sumitra she
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Speaker 1: lived with her husband's parents in their hut. But the
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Speaker 1: reality was is she wasn't nearly as close with them
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Speaker 1: as she was with her own family, and her own
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Speaker 1: family was nowhere nearby, and so Sumitra's life was really
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Speaker 1: quite lonely, even as an adult. And so when Sumitra
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Speaker 1: had her baby, it was like for the first time
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Speaker 1: in her life, she didn't feel alone, and she was
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Speaker 1: excited about her life. She was happy that something was
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Speaker 1: finally going the way she wanted it to. But then
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Speaker 1: one day in early nineteen eighty five, everything changed. That day, Sumitra,
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Speaker 1: with her son attached to her chest, was walking into
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Speaker 1: town to get water from the well, and as she
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Speaker 1: was walking along the dirt cath she suddenly came to
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Speaker 1: a stop, very rigid, and she dropped her bucket on
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Speaker 1: the ground. A couple of other villagers who were nearby
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Speaker 1: heard the bucket fall. They turned and looked at Sumitra,
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Speaker 1: who was standing there totally rigid, and so one of
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Speaker 1: these villagers, who was very concerned, walked over to Sumitra
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Speaker 1: and asked her what was going on.
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Speaker 2: But Sumitra, she didn't say anything. She just stood there frozen.
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Speaker 1: And this concerned villager looked down at Sumitra's hands, and
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Speaker 1: her fingers were bending back so hard it almost looked
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Speaker 1: like they might break going in the other direction. And
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Speaker 1: then this villager, before asking any more questions, looked up
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Speaker 1: at Sumitra's face and her eyes had rolled back into
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Speaker 1: the back of her skull, and she had begun grinding
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Speaker 1: her teeth so hard that it was making this loud
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Speaker 1: cracking sound with every movement of her jaw side to side,
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Speaker 1: And so this villager was totally terrified and backed up
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Speaker 1: for a second, and right as they did, Sumitra's baby,
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Speaker 1: who was still strapped to Sumitra's chest, began hysterically crying.
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Speaker 1: And so the combination of Sumitra's baby crying and these
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Speaker 1: other couple of villagers who were staring at Sumitra, who's
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Speaker 1: standing there in this very grotesque pose, attracted the eyes
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Speaker 1: of other nearby villagers, and soon there was a crowd
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Speaker 1: of people just standing there looking at Sumitra, not sure
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Speaker 1: why to do. And then, just as suddenly as Sumitra
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Speaker 1: had fallen into this trance, it stopped and Sumitra she
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Speaker 1: kind of shook her head, she fluttered her eyes, and
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Speaker 1: she looked around, and then suddenly became aware that her
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Speaker 1: son is hysterically crying, and also there's this crowd of
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Speaker 1: people all around her. She has no idea why, and so,
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Speaker 1: feeling really embarrassed, but again not knowing what's going on,
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Speaker 1: Sumitra quickly picked up her water bucket, she held her
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Speaker 1: son and hustled out of the crowd of people and
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Speaker 1: made her way into town where she would get water.
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Speaker 1: When Sumitra came back from the well and was back
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Speaker 1: near her hut, she didn't tell anyone about what had
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Speaker 1: happened on the way to the well. Frankly, she couldn't
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Speaker 1: really remember what happened, and so Sumitra told herself that
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Speaker 1: whatever happened on the trail to the well, that trance
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Speaker 1: she fell into it had to be a one time thing,
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Speaker 1: likely brought on by stress and sleeplessness from.
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Speaker 2: Having a new baby.
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Speaker 1: But a few weeks later it happened again, and this
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Speaker 1: time the trance lasted quite a bit longer. Sumitra's father
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Speaker 1: in law had walked into their kitchen and found Sumitra
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Speaker 1: standing They're totally rigid, with her hands kind of bending
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Speaker 1: backwards and her eyes rolled back in her skull, and
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Speaker 1: he would tell her later on that he had shaken
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Speaker 1: her and tried to wake her up, but he couldn't
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Speaker 1: for almost ten minutes, and then when she had snapped out.
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Speaker 2: Of it, she had no memory and had no idea
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Speaker 2: what happened.
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Speaker 1: By May of nineteen eighty five, so roughly five months
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Speaker 1: after her first trance, Sumitra was falling into these bizarre
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Speaker 1: spells nearly every day, and they were lasting hours at
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Speaker 1: a time, and even more bizarre lately. During Sumitra's trances,
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Speaker 1: she would begin to speak, and the things she said
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Speaker 1: were totally strange. Typically, she would bark out cries for help.
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Speaker 1: She would say her head was being crushed and someone
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Speaker 1: needed to help her, and then suddenly her voice would
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Speaker 1: drop down to a whisper and she would say.
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Speaker 2: All I can see is darkness.
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Speaker 1: Sumitra's family would contact the local medicine man, who would
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Speaker 1: come out and examine Sumitra, but he couldn't figure out
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Speaker 1: what was wrong with her. Besides her trances, there seemed
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Speaker 1: to be absolutely nothing wrong with her.
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Speaker 2: She was the picture of good health.
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Speaker 1: And then on July sixteenth, nineteen eighty five, so roughly
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Speaker 1: six months into these trances, Sumitra would fall into another
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Speaker 1: trance while she was cooking, and during this trance she
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Speaker 1: would speak, except when she spoke, she was very calm
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Speaker 1: and she just said, in three days, I'm going to die.
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Speaker 1: By this point, Sumitra was terrified of whatever was happening
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Speaker 1: to her, and she was totally exhausted, and so was
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Speaker 1: her family, Sumitra had stopped caring for her son, who
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Speaker 1: was now about eight months old, because she was afraid
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Speaker 1: that at any moment she could fall into a trance
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Speaker 1: and accidentally hurt him, and so her mother in law
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Speaker 1: had basically become the boy's mother, and also Sumitra's husband,
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Speaker 1: who was the primary breadwinner for the family, was forced
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Speaker 1: to stop traveling for work and just stay home and
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Speaker 1: help out with Sumitra and his son. Finally, on July nineteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, so this was the day that in
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Speaker 1: her trance, Sumitra had predicted she would die.
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Speaker 2: On that day, Sumi woke up and.
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Speaker 1: Made a very conscious effort not to do anything that
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Speaker 1: could potentially harm her. She didn't cook because she didn't
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Speaker 1: want to be near flames. She didn't walk near anything
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Speaker 1: with any sort of ledge she could fall off. She
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Speaker 1: didn't even walk downstairs for the same reason. She also
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Speaker 1: kept a very safe distance from her son in order
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Speaker 1: to make sure he was safe. And by late afternoon
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Speaker 1: that day, Sumitra was just fine and there was no
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Speaker 1: sign that anything bad was going to happen to her,
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Speaker 1: and so she and her family began to relax. As
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Speaker 1: Sumitra's mother in law began making dinner. Sumitra decided to
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Speaker 1: go outside and get some fresh air, and when she
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Speaker 1: got out there, she saw one of her close friends
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Speaker 1: across the road, and so she waved her, and as
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Speaker 1: her friend cheerfully began walking closer to Sumitra to say hello,
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Speaker 1: Sumitra suddenly froze, her eyes went back in her skull,
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Speaker 1: her hands became rigid, and she fell into one of
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Speaker 1: her trances. And so this friend, like everyone else in
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Speaker 1: the village, had become quite accustomed to seeing Sumitra in
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Speaker 1: these trances, so really the friend was not that concerned
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Speaker 1: when she saw Sumitra doing this. But then Sumitra began
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Speaker 1: doing something in her trance that this friend had never
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Speaker 1: seen before. Sumitra, who normally had her hands by her
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Speaker 1: side during these trances, she began raising her hands up
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Speaker 1: till they reached her forehead, and then wildly Sumitra began
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Speaker 1: clawing at something right above her head, and as she did,
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Speaker 1: her breathing became very loud and labored, and so this friend,
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Speaker 1: feeling suddenly so concerned for Sumitra, rushed over. But when
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Speaker 1: she got right next to Sumitra, there was nothing she
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Speaker 1: could do.
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Speaker 2: Sumitra was just clawing at the sky, breathing really heavily.
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Speaker 1: And then suddenly Sumitra stopped and she put her hands
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Speaker 1: down by her side and she went back to this
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Speaker 1: rigid pose and then out of Sumitra's mouth came this horrible, low,
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Speaker 1: rattling moan sound. It was just a constant sound that
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Speaker 1: came out of her, and it got deeper and deeper
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Speaker 1: and deeper, until Sumitra's voice kind of cracked. And then
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Speaker 1: suddenly Sumitra went totally still. And when this happened, Sumitra's friend,
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Speaker 1: who was right next to her, realized Sumitra, even though
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Speaker 1: she was standing upright, she was not breathing at all.
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Speaker 2: It was like she was a statue.
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Speaker 1: And so this friend began screaming for help, and so
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Speaker 1: Sumitra's in laws and her husband and other.
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Speaker 2: Villagers who heard this cry, they came running outside.
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Speaker 1: And they quickly circled around Sumitra. And then a few
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Speaker 1: minutes later the medicine man arrived. He broke through the circle,
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Speaker 1: went right up to Sumitra and began checking her out.
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Speaker 1: He checked her pulse, he checked her heartbeat, He kind
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Speaker 1: of looked inside of her mouth, he looked in her eyes,
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Speaker 1: and then after a minute he stepped back and he
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Speaker 1: just said, she's dead. Sumitra's husband fell to his knees,
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Speaker 1: and Sumitra's mother in law, who was carrying Sumitra's son,
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Speaker 1: began crying. All the while Sumitra's body still remained totally
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Speaker 1: upright and rigid in the middle of all these people,
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Speaker 1: with her hands tight by her side and her eyes
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Speaker 1: rolled back and her face frozen in what looked like
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Speaker 1: a silent scream. Eventually, the medicine man and Sumitra's father
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Speaker 1: in law stepped forward and lowered Sumitra's frozen, rigid body
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Speaker 1: onto the ground on her back, and they closed her eyes.
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Speaker 1: There was no hospital to take Sumitra's body to or
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Speaker 1: official to call about her death, and in this village
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Speaker 1: at this time, it was very important for both religious
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Speaker 1: and public health reasons to take care of the body
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Speaker 1: very quickly. And what that looked like was the villagers
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Speaker 1: would work together to perform the Hindu death rituals, and
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Speaker 1: then afterwards they would cremate the body, which is a
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Speaker 1: process of burning the body until.
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Speaker 2: All you have left is the ashes.
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Speaker 1: And so as Sumitra's body lay still rigid on her back,
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Speaker 1: right near her home. Her family and the villagers began
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Speaker 1: making preparations for her funeral. Sumitra's mother in law and
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Speaker 1: some women from the village began scrubbing down Sumitra's body,
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Speaker 1: as well as putting essential oils on her face, and
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Speaker 1: other villagers who were not a part of that went
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Speaker 1: off to find wood for a fire. The villagers weren't
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Speaker 1: talking much, and a lot of the women were crying.
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Speaker 1: But it wasn't just grief they were feeling. It was
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Speaker 1: also fear. They all knew about Sumitra's trances. They happened
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Speaker 1: all the time for months, but what the villagers couldn't
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Speaker 1: wrap their heads around was the idea that during one
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Speaker 1: of these trances, Sumitra had accurately predicted her own death.
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Speaker 1: And so now the villagers couldn't help but think that
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Speaker 1: dark forces were at play here, that maybe Sumitra was
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Speaker 1: possessed and you know, now, whatever had possessed her and
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Speaker 1: killed her is somewhere in the village.
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Speaker 2: And so that night, as the.
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Speaker 1: Sun started to go down, normally kids would be out
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Speaker 1: playing in the village, but their parents said, no, come inside,
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Speaker 1: it's not safe outside, and so for the most part,
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Speaker 1: the only people who were outside that night were the
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Speaker 1: women who were still cleaning and prepping Sumitra's body.
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Speaker 2: For her funeral.
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Speaker 1: And at some point, one of the women who was
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Speaker 1: doing this was brushing out Sumitra's hair, and as she
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Speaker 1: did that, she suddenly stopped and she backed up and
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Speaker 1: screamed and pointed at Sumitra. And then the other women
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Speaker 1: all around Sumitra's body they looked over at what this
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Speaker 1: person was pointing at, and they two saw it and screamed,
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Speaker 1: and everyone began rambling to try to get away from
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Speaker 1: Sumitra as fast as possible. What all these terrified women
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Speaker 1: were seeing was that Sumitra her eyes were closed, but
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Speaker 1: her eyes were darting left and right, so her eyelids
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Speaker 1: were kind of fluttering. And then suddenly Sumitra's chest filled
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Speaker 1: with air, and then she breathed out a long, loud exhale,
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Speaker 1: and then she opened her eyes and she sat bolt
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Speaker 1: upright and began looking around.
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Speaker 2: And the other women who were terrified, they're looking at her,
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Speaker 2: and they were struck.
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Speaker 1: By how completely healthy and normal Sumitra now looked, even
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Speaker 1: though for the past forty five minutes she didn't have
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Speaker 1: a heartbeat and was totally pale and looked completely dead.
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Speaker 1: Sumitra wiped the essential oils from her face and then
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Speaker 1: she stood up, and as she did, the medicine man
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Speaker 1: he had heard all the commotion and ran over and
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Speaker 1: he ran to Sumitra and kind of assisted her and
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Speaker 1: got her to stand on her feet because she was
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Speaker 1: a little bit wobbly. And then the medicine man performed
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Speaker 1: a check up on Sumitra, checking her heartbeat, her pulse.
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Speaker 1: He looked in her mouth, he looked at her eyes,
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Speaker 1: and then he asked, Sumitra, you know, how are you feeling?
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Speaker 2: And Sumitra said, I'm okay.
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Speaker 1: And then the medicine man he kind of turned to
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Speaker 1: face this now huge crowd of onlooking villagers, and the
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Speaker 1: medicine man had a big smile on his face and
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Speaker 1: he said, you all have just witnessed a miracle.
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Speaker 2: Sumitra is back from the dead.
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Speaker 1: her in laws were too shocked to say anything or
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Speaker 1: really even react, But then suddenly Sumitra's husband was overcome
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Speaker 1: with joy and he ran forward to hug Sumitra. But
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Speaker 1: as Sumitra turned and saw him coming towards her, she
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Speaker 1: backed up suddenly and put her hands out to protect
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Speaker 1: herself from her husband, and immediately the medicine man he
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Speaker 1: kind of stepped in between the husband and Sumitra. Then
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Speaker 1: he patted the husband on the shoulder and said, you know,
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Speaker 1: she's been through something very traumatic. You need to give
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Speaker 1: her time and space to recover. And everybody in the
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Speaker 1: village who saw this happen, they were accustomed to whenever
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Speaker 1: Sumitra fell into one of her trances, when she came
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Speaker 1: out of them, she oftentimes was a little bit confused,
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Speaker 1: and so they all just kind of assumed that this
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Speaker 1: is what was happening, but on a bigger scale. You know,
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Speaker 1: this is a really intense trance they've seen, but she's
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Speaker 1: just confused.
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Speaker 2: She'll be okay soon.
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Speaker 1: And so the villagers dispersed and the medicine man assisted
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Speaker 1: Sumitra back into her hut and he got her in
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Speaker 1: her bed where she fell asleep. And then afterwards the
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Speaker 1: medicine man reassured Sumitra's husband and her in laws that
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Speaker 1: Sumitra when she woke up, she'd likely be just fine,
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Speaker 1: but he would come by and he would do another
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Speaker 1: thorough medical exam on her, just to make sure. And
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Speaker 1: the next morning, when Sumitra woke up, she did seem
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Speaker 1: a lot better. When she left her bedroom, she seemed
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Speaker 1: far less confused than she had been the night before.
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Speaker 1: But as soon as Sumitra saw her husband and her
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Speaker 1: in laws, she got so scared she just bolted from
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Speaker 1: her hut and started running away, and so the medicine man,
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Speaker 1: who had just come by to do his throat checkup,
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Speaker 1: he saw her take off, and so he began chasing her,
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Speaker 1: as well as Sumitra's husband and father in law. They
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Speaker 1: took off after Sumitra, and finally, when Sumitra's husband caught
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Speaker 1: up to Sumitra, he grabbed her by the arm to
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Speaker 1: stop her, and Sumitra ripped her arm away from him
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Speaker 1: and she said, how dare you touch.
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Speaker 2: Another man's wife?
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Speaker 1: And as the husband kind of ushered Sumitra back towards
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Speaker 1: their house, she continued to say, you're not my family,
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Speaker 1: this is not my home. And then finally Sumitra's husband
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Speaker 1: and the medicine man had to literally drag Sumitra to
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Speaker 1: get her to go back inside the hut, and as
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Speaker 1: they dragged her inside, she kept screaming that her name
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Speaker 1: was Shiva Duetti and her in.
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Speaker 2: Laws had killed her. Over the next couple of days.
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Speaker 1: The medicine man and Sumitra's family tried everything they could
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Speaker 1: to try to snap her out of what seemed like
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Speaker 1: a really long trance, but nothing they did worked. It
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Speaker 1: seemed like Sumitra had just kind of lost her mind.
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Speaker 1: Sumitra began refusing to touch her beloved son and instead
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Speaker 1: would demand that someone bring her Ringku and Tinku, But
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Speaker 1: when no one knew who or what she was talking about,
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Speaker 1: Sumitra would just get furious. Sumitra had never gone to
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Speaker 1: school and so did not know how to write, but
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Speaker 1: now suddenly, in this new trance that she was in,
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Speaker 1: Sumitra would go inside of her bedroom and write these long,
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Speaker 1: totally unhinged sounding letters to total strangers asking them to
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Speaker 1: come please take her home. And when she wasn't doing that,
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Speaker 1: she was typically outside in the courtyard looking at a
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Speaker 1: scar on her foot, wondering how she got it. Sumitra
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Speaker 1: also began wrapping her sorry, which is a type of
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Speaker 1: dress fabric, in a new and strange way around her head.
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Speaker 1: She also refused to eat off of any dishes that
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Speaker 1: her family had previously used, and her voice began to
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Speaker 1: sound different.
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Speaker 2: It was higher pitched and much faster, and.
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Speaker 1: The way she spoke was always so rude and so
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Speaker 1: eventually Sumitra's husband and her in laws and everybody in
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Speaker 1: the village just kind of resigned themselves to the fact
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Speaker 1: that when Sumitra had not had a heartbeat for forty
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Speaker 1: five minutes when she she died during.
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Speaker 2: That time, she likely suffered.
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Speaker 1: Serious brain damage, or at a minimum, when she kind
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Speaker 1: of came back from the dead, she suffered some kind
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Speaker 1: of psychological break, and so that was why she was
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Speaker 1: acting the way she was. And soon people just stopped
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Speaker 1: trying to break Sumitra out of this trance she was in,
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Speaker 1: and instead they all focused on just trying to keep.
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Speaker 2: Her from running away or hurting herself.
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Speaker 1: And then one day, on October twentieth, nineteen eighty five,
18:27
Speaker 1: so three months after Sumitra had died for forty five minutes,
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Speaker 1: Sumitra's family heard a knock on their front door. When
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Speaker 1: Sumitra's husband went to the door and opened it up,
18:37
Speaker 1: he saw there was this older gentleman standing there, wearing
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Speaker 1: a suit and nice shoes, standing several feet back from
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Speaker 1: the door, as if he was kind of shy but
18:45
Speaker 1: felt compelled to knock on the door.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: Right off the bat, this man looked totally out of
18:51
Speaker 1: place to Sumitra's husband. Nobody in this village wore suits
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Speaker 1: or nice shoes. In fact, most people, including Sumitra and
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Speaker 1: her family, he didn't even wear shoes. But even stranger
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Speaker 1: than what this man was wearing was what he was
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Speaker 1: clutching against his chest.
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Speaker 2: He had this huge leather.
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Speaker 1: Bound book with gold tram around the edges that he
19:10
Speaker 1: was holding on to very tightly, as if it was
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Speaker 1: very important. And so finally, this strange man, who was
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Speaker 1: visibly nervous and rocking back and forth, began to speak,
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Speaker 1: but his voice was so low Sumitra's husband had to
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Speaker 1: lean forward just to hear him. The man said his
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Speaker 1: name was Rom Tripathi, and he wanted to know if
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Speaker 1: there was a young woman living in this home who
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Speaker 1: had recently begun acting differently. Sumitra's husband had no idea
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Speaker 1: who Ram Tripathy was.
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Speaker 2: He didn't know this guy.
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Speaker 1: He certainly didn't know where he came from. But what
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Speaker 1: was going through his head was, how is this stranger
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Speaker 1: who's dressed in a funny way, who's got this weird book,
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Speaker 1: how is he aware of the issues my wife is having?
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Speaker 2: And so, after a.
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Speaker 1: Long pause, Sumitra's husband just kind of looks Rom Tripathy
19:54
Speaker 1: up and down a couple of times, and then says
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Speaker 1: wait right here, I'll.
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Speaker 2: Be right back.
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Speaker 1: And then Sumitra's husband turned around. He walked through the
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Speaker 1: hut into Sumitra's bedroom and kind of matter of factly,
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Speaker 1: he said to Sumitra, who was sitting there writing another letter,
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Speaker 1: that there's a strange man outside named ram Trapathi and
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Speaker 1: he's asking about you. Sumitra's husband expected Sumitra to just
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Speaker 1: turn and look at him with a blank stare, like
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Speaker 1: she had been doing the last few days, but this
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Speaker 1: time she turned.
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Speaker 2: And looked up at him with a huge.
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Speaker 1: Smile on her face, and then she leapt up and
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Speaker 1: ran to the front door and leapt into the arms
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Speaker 1: of ram Tripathi and ram Trapathi. He was kind of
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Speaker 1: taken aback, still holding his book, not really reacting to
20:36
Speaker 1: what Sumitra was doing. And at some point Sumitra leans
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Speaker 1: in and whispers something into Ram Trapathi's ear, and Ram
20:43
Speaker 1: Trapathi he reacted to it very negatively. He kind of
20:46
Speaker 1: looked up at her and looked over at Sumitra's husband
20:48
Speaker 1: like something was wrong. But Sumitra's husband couldn't tell what
20:52
Speaker 1: Sumitra had said, and so the whole situation made no
20:55
Speaker 1: sense to Sumitra's husband and Apparently it also made no
20:58
Speaker 1: sense to ram Tripathi, and so pretty quickly, ram Trapathi
21:02
Speaker 1: kind of pushed Sumitra off of him and took a
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Speaker 1: few steps back and looked at Sumitra and said, what's
21:08
Speaker 1: your name? And Sumitra is now looking at ram Trapathi
21:11
Speaker 1: with a look of anger and betrayal on her face,
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Speaker 1: and she says, my name is Shiva Duetti. Ram Trapathi,
21:17
Speaker 1: after hearing this, did not respond and instead just kind
21:20
Speaker 1: of gestured over to a low wall just outside of
21:23
Speaker 1: their house for he and Sumitra to go.
21:25
Speaker 2: Sit down on. And so he walked over and Sumitra
21:28
Speaker 2: followed him.
21:29
Speaker 1: They sat down, and Sumitra's husband, he walked over, but
21:32
Speaker 1: he stayed a couple of feet back, standing up, and
21:34
Speaker 1: once ram Trapathi was sitting down, he lowered his big
21:37
Speaker 1: leather bound book and he opened it up and inside
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Speaker 1: were all these photographs, and right away ram Trapathi pointed
21:44
Speaker 1: at one of the pictures, which contained a bunch of
21:46
Speaker 1: people in it, and he turned to Sumitra and he said,
21:49
Speaker 1: can you identify who's in this photo? And Sumitra she
21:52
Speaker 1: looked at the photo and immediately began rattling off names
21:56
Speaker 1: that were all correct, these are people that Sumitra's husband.
21:59
Speaker 1: He's looked over and he's got no idea who the
22:01
Speaker 1: people are in that photo. And so after Sumitra correctly
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Speaker 1: identifies that photo, Ram.
22:07
Speaker 2: Trapathi turns the page.
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Speaker 1: She picks out another photo and he says, can you
22:10
Speaker 1: identify who's in this photo? And again Sumitra one by
22:13
Speaker 1: one would name correctly all the people in the photo.
22:16
Speaker 1: And then finally ram Tripathi took a sigh and he
22:19
Speaker 1: plucked the page one more time and he pointed to
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Speaker 1: one particular picture which contained one person and he looked.
22:26
Speaker 2: At Sumitra and he said, do you know who this is?
22:29
Speaker 1: And Sumitra she would look over at the photo and
22:31
Speaker 1: instead of immediately saying the name, she paused, and she
22:34
Speaker 1: kind of began to breathe heavy, and she seemed kind
22:36
Speaker 1: of angry. And then she looked at Rom Tripathi and
22:38
Speaker 1: she said, I know who that is. That's my sister
22:41
Speaker 1: in law. And she killed me by hitting me over
22:43
Speaker 1: the head with a brick. And at this Ram Tripathi
22:46
Speaker 1: dropped his book on the ground and he turned and
22:49
Speaker 1: embraced Sumitra as hard and as intensely as she had
22:54
Speaker 1: when she had run out and leapt into his arms,
22:56
Speaker 1: and he and Sumitra they hugged and cried for a
22:59
Speaker 1: long time, and then finally when they separated, ram Trapathi
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Speaker 1: turned to Sumitra's husband, who's still just standing there totally bewildered,
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Speaker 1: and he tells him, let's go inside.
23:09
Speaker 2: And I'll explain everything.
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Speaker 1: Once ram Tripathi was inside with Sumitra and her family,
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Speaker 1: he told them an unbelievable story about a woman named
23:18
Speaker 1: Shiba Duetti.
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Speaker 2: Shiva Duetti was, of.
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Speaker 1: Course, the name that Sumitra for months had been saying
23:24
Speaker 1: was her own. But over those few months, her family
23:27
Speaker 1: had just assumed that that name meant nothing and that
23:30
Speaker 1: what she was saying was nonsense because of her brain injury.
23:33
Speaker 1: But ram Trapathi would tell them that Shiva Duetti was
23:37
Speaker 1: the name of a young woman who lived in a
23:40
Speaker 1: city none of them had ever heard before, located about
23:43
Speaker 1: sixty miles away from their village. He would tell them
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Speaker 1: that Shiva was a very wealthy woman who was college educated,
23:49
Speaker 1: and she had two young sons. And it would turn
23:52
Speaker 1: out that Shiva's youngest child was born almost on the
23:55
Speaker 1: same day that Sumitra's child was born.
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Speaker 2: In December of nineteen eighty five.
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Speaker 1: But unlike Sumitra, who after the birth of her child
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Speaker 1: felt like her life got so much better.
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Speaker 2: She loved her family, she was excited about the future.
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Speaker 2: For Shiva, it was the opposite.
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Speaker 1: When her first child arrived, it was like her life
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Speaker 1: got worse and worse and worse.
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Speaker 2: Shiva's in laws had grown to hate her.
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Speaker 1: They didn't like that she was so well educated, and
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Speaker 1: they hated the family she came from, and so by
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Speaker 1: early nineteen eighty five, when by this point Sumitra was
24:26
Speaker 1: regularly falling into those trances with her eyes rolling back
24:29
Speaker 1: and her teeth gnashing, the tension and fighting in Sheba's
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Speaker 1: home sixty miles away was reaching an almost unbearable level.
24:37
Speaker 1: Shiva began writing these long letters that she would send
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Speaker 1: to her family far away, where she would detail waking
24:44
Speaker 1: up almost every night with nightmares screaming. And in May
24:48
Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty five, which is when Sumitra began speaking
24:51
Speaker 1: during her trances, Shiva got into the biggest fights she
24:55
Speaker 1: had ever gotten into with her in laws about attending
24:58
Speaker 1: a family wedding, and on the night of May eighteenth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, Shiva's neighbors in her city saw Siva's
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Speaker 1: in laws literally carrying Shiva's body, which appeared to be unconscious,
25:10
Speaker 1: as they walked along the railroad tracks. When these neighbors
25:13
Speaker 1: ran up and asked if everything was okay with Sheiba,
25:16
Speaker 1: Shiva's in laws just said, oh, you know, she's sick
25:18
Speaker 1: and we're taking her to the hospital. Now, it was nighttime,
25:21
Speaker 1: there were no lights around, and so it was really
25:23
Speaker 1: dark and these neighbors couldn't get a good look at
25:26
Speaker 1: Siva to see what was going on with her, and
25:28
Speaker 1: so even though they thought this was very strange, they
25:31
Speaker 1: decided not to say anything. The next morning, Shiva's dead
25:35
Speaker 1: body was found lying on the train tracks right near
25:38
Speaker 1: the train station, and so someone raised the alarm and
25:41
Speaker 1: before long, Siva's uncle and sister ran to the train station,
25:45
Speaker 1: and when they got there and saw Sheiva on the tracks,
25:48
Speaker 1: they also saw Siva's in laws were already there, and
25:51
Speaker 1: when they spoke to Shiva's in laws, they told the
25:54
Speaker 1: uncle and the sister that it looks like Shiva must
25:56
Speaker 1: have jumped in front of a.
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Speaker 2: Train to commit suicide.
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Speaker 1: But the uncle and sister are looking down at Shiva's
26:02
Speaker 1: body and there appeared to be really no markings, bruises,
26:06
Speaker 1: cuts of any kind on her body that you would
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Speaker 1: expect from getting hit by a train, except Shiva did
26:12
Speaker 1: have a very big mark on her head. Later on,
26:15
Speaker 1: the uncle and sister would say it looked like something
26:18
Speaker 1: had bashed Sheiva's head in Shiva's in laws would immediately
26:22
Speaker 1: cremate Shiva's body before Shiva's actual family could stop them,
26:27
Speaker 1: and the police in this area were not good at
26:30
Speaker 1: investigating crime. So when Shiva's in laws went to them
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Speaker 1: and said, yep, she jumped in front of a train,
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Speaker 1: she committed suicide, but we don't have a body because
26:37
Speaker 1: we already cremated her, the police just accepted it. Shiva's
26:41
Speaker 1: father was convinced that Shiva had been murdered, but he
26:45
Speaker 1: didn't have a way to prove it until Sumitra appeared
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Speaker 1: to die on July nineteenth, nineteen eighty five, and then
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Speaker 1: came back to life claiming to be Shiva. Shiva's father
26:56
Speaker 1: had heard a rumor about some girl in a village
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Speaker 1: six sixty miles away claiming to be his dead daughter.
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Speaker 2: Now, at first, Shiva's father.
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Speaker 1: Did not believe this, but eventually he decided he would
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Speaker 1: go to the village and test this girl to see
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Speaker 1: if maybe it was true. And so on October twentieth,
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Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five, Shiva's father put on his best suit
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Speaker 1: and his nice at shoes. He brought his leather bound
27:19
Speaker 1: photo book and he headed to Sumitra's village and knocked
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Speaker 1: on her hut Ram Tripathi was Shiva's dad, when Sumitra
27:27
Speaker 1: at first ran outside and left onto Ram Tripathi and
27:31
Speaker 1: hugged him and then whispered something into his ear that
27:34
Speaker 1: Sumitra's husband saw happening but couldn't hear what she said.
27:37
Speaker 1: And then Ram Tripathi when he heard what she whispered,
27:40
Speaker 1: he kind of recoiled and acted angry for a second.
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Speaker 2: What Sumitra was saying was Papa.
27:45
Speaker 1: In the moment, Ram Tripathi, who was not convinced Sumitra
27:49
Speaker 1: was his daughter, felt like this is a horrible, elaborate
27:53
Speaker 1: hoax and it needs to stop. But then Sumitra correctly
27:57
Speaker 1: identified fifteen people in his leatherbound photo album, including the
28:02
Speaker 1: sister in law who she said killed her. And even
28:05
Speaker 1: more convincing than that was that Sumitra knew how Sheiba had.
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Speaker 2: Been killed by getting smashed over the head with a brick.
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Speaker 1: This was a question that ram Trapathi had never heard
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Speaker 1: the answer to before, and at that point ram Trapathi
28:19
Speaker 1: believed that this must be his daughter's reincarnated spirit inside
28:23
Speaker 1: of Sumitra, and so that was when he dropped the
28:26
Speaker 1: book and gave her a big hug. This story is
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Speaker 1: considered to be one of the most credible reincarnation stories
28:32
Speaker 1: ever recorded. Scientists from the University of Virginia in America
28:37
Speaker 1: actually went to India to study Sumitra and interview everybody involved,
28:42
Speaker 1: and they concluded that this was not a hoax. They
28:46
Speaker 1: said that Sumitra had most likely either been possessed by
28:50
Speaker 1: or reincarnated as Shiba Duetti. The change in Sumitra's voice
28:55
Speaker 1: that her family noticed was the same accent that Siva had.
28:59
Speaker 2: It was very early and educated.
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Speaker 1: The strange new way that Sumitra wrapped her sorry on
29:04
Speaker 1: her head was the same way that Shiva did. Sumitra
29:07
Speaker 1: was rude to her family and refused to eat off
29:10
Speaker 1: the same dishes as them because she believed she was
29:13
Speaker 1: actually a very wealthy woman who was for some reason
29:16
Speaker 1: being forced to live in this poor person's hut. And
29:19
Speaker 1: when Sumitra asked for tinku and ringku those were nicknames
29:24
Speaker 1: that Shiva had given her two sons, And all those
29:27
Speaker 1: seemingly unhinged letters that Sumitra had written and fired off
29:31
Speaker 1: to random strangers were in fact sent to various members
29:36
Speaker 1: of Shiva's family. After Shiva's father, Rahm Tripathi, brought Sumitra's
29:41
Speaker 1: story to the police. The police would actually investigate this case,
29:45
Speaker 1: and they would charge some members of Siva's family, but
29:49
Speaker 1: ultimately Sumitra's testimony was deemed unacceptable for court, and so
29:55
Speaker 1: the case was never officially solved. As for Shiva's in laws,
29:59
Speaker 1: they have always denied killing her. Sumitra lived the entire
30:02
Speaker 1: rest of her life as Shiba, and Shiva's real parents
30:06
Speaker 1: accepted her as their daughter. Sumitra also came to accept
30:10
Speaker 1: her son and raised her son with her husband in
30:14
Speaker 1: their little village until she died in.
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