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Speaker 1: into today's stories. On January first, twenty fifteen, a family
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Speaker 1: in South Yorkshire, England, gathered at a restaurant for their
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Speaker 1: annual New Year's Day lunch, but one member of this
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Speaker 1: family who said they would be attending, didn't show up.
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Speaker 1: It was fifty year old Stephen Winfrey, who was an unemployed,
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Speaker 1: divorced father of two who in recent years had become
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Speaker 1: quite depressed. When they reached out to him on his
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Speaker 1: phone and he didn't pick up the family pretty quickly
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Speaker 1: started to worry that something could have happened to him, that,
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Speaker 1: you know, perhaps he did something to harm himself, given
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Speaker 1: his mental state. But his sister Nadine, who was at
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Speaker 1: this lunch, she reassured the rest of the family that
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Speaker 1: she had spoken to Stephen the night before and he
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Speaker 1: was in great spirits and had told her that his
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Speaker 1: plan was to go rabbit hunting the next day on
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Speaker 1: New Year's Day, before heading over to the restaurant for lunch.
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Speaker 1: And because Nadine knew that her brother recently had really
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Speaker 1: taken a liking to rabbit hunting, it was one of
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Speaker 1: the very few things that actually made him happy, she
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Speaker 1: told the family, look, I bet you anything, he just
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Speaker 1: lost track of time and he will get here late,
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Speaker 1: or maybe we won't see him at all. But at
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Speaker 1: least he's out doing something that makes him happy. And
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Speaker 1: so the family was reassured by this, and so they
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Speaker 1: sat down at their table, they order their food, and
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Speaker 1: the whole meal, everyone's kind of looking over at the
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Speaker 1: front door, expecting Steven to come strolling in at any minute.
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Speaker 1: But when they finished up eating, he still had not arrived.
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Speaker 1: And so as the family was getting ready to leave
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Speaker 1: the restaurant and head back home. They all decided that,
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Speaker 1: you know what, I'm sure Stephen is fine. He's doing
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Speaker 1: something he loves. I'm sure he did just get carried away,
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Speaker 1: and so we'll just wait for him to contact us.
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Speaker 1: And so the family they all leave the restaurant and
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Speaker 1: they spend the rest of the day at their respective households.
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Speaker 1: And then the following morning, they all get in touch
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Speaker 1: with each other and they discover that still no one
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Speaker 1: has seen or heard from Stephen. And so at this point,
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Speaker 1: the family just felt like there was something off about this,
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Speaker 1: and so they contacted the police and they reported him missing.
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Speaker 1: As the police were getting ready to head out and
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Speaker 1: begin looking for Stephen that day, they received a call
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Speaker 1: Stephen had been found. Although the exact details of what
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Speaker 1: happened to Stephen may never be fully understood, this is
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Speaker 1: the best theory that the pl have come up with.
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Speaker 1: On New Year's Day, January first, the day Stephen was
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Speaker 1: supposed to meet his family for lunch, he had gotten
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Speaker 1: up early and headed out to a nearby forested park
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Speaker 1: to do some rabbit hunting, just like he told his
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Speaker 1: sister he would be. He had gone to the park
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Speaker 1: with his dog and some ferrets. The way Stephen caught
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Speaker 1: rabbits is he would release these ferrets into various rabbit holes,
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Speaker 1: and then he would stand back with his rifle and
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Speaker 1: he would wait for the ferret to run the rabbits
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Speaker 1: out of their holes out into the open, and then
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Speaker 1: he would raise his rifle and shoot at the rabbits,
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Speaker 1: and then his dog would run over and grab the
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Speaker 1: rabbit and bring it back to him. And so all
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Speaker 1: morning long he was doing this with relative success. And
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Speaker 1: then something happened to where Stephen decided he needed to
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Speaker 1: actually look inside of one of these rabbit holes. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: one of his ferrets got stuck, or one of the
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Speaker 1: rabbits got stuck, but either way, he wanted to look
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Speaker 1: into the opening of one of these rabbit holes. And
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Speaker 1: so he walked over to it, and apparently he couldn't
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Speaker 1: quite see whatever it was he wanted to see, and
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Speaker 1: so he got down on his hands and knees and
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Speaker 1: stuck his head into this rabbit hole opening. Now, these
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Speaker 1: openings to these rabbit holes are pretty narrow, and so
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Speaker 1: once he forced his head inside it got stuck. He
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Speaker 1: could not pull it out again, and so all around
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Speaker 1: the outside of this hole where his head was stuck.
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Speaker 1: There were these deep divots that his hands had obviously
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Speaker 1: dug once he realized he was stuck, because he was
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Speaker 1: trying to dig the entrance a little bit wider to
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Speaker 1: get his head out. But as he was working really
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Speaker 1: really hard and laboring to kind of dig this hole out,
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Speaker 1: he was burning up the very limited amount of oxygen
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Speaker 1: that was inside of this hole, and so very quickly
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Speaker 1: as he was trying to save himself, he would have
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Speaker 1: started to struggle breathing because there just wasn't enough air
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Speaker 1: in this hole, and so when it became clear he
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Speaker 1: was starting to suffocate, he abandoned the approach of trying
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Speaker 1: to dig himself out and began trying to contort his
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Speaker 1: body outside of the hole at really extreme angles to
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Speaker 1: try to pop his head out, even if it meant
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Speaker 1: breaking his neck in the process. But no matter how
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Speaker 1: hard he tried, he just could not get his head out.
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Speaker 1: The following day, January two, at four pm, this is
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Speaker 1: after Steven has been reported missing a person walking through
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Speaker 1: that forested park, they found Stephen. They saw his body
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Speaker 1: poking out of that hole at a really extreme angle,
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Speaker 1: and so they called the police. The police showed up
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Speaker 1: to the park and they confirmed that Stephen was dead.
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Speaker 1: He had suffocated. His death was not ruled a suicide.
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Speaker 1: It was determined to be an accident. As for Stephen's
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Speaker 1: back to the stories. Brian Joplin was born in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy two and was raised in this tiny town in
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Speaker 1: up he was always encouraged to play football, and he did,
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Speaker 1: but his real passion had always been working on cars.
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Speaker 1: stuck around in Hugo doing some autobody work. But he
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Speaker 1: got this feeling that he should do something bigger with
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Speaker 1: his life, and so in nineteen ninety two, he decided
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Speaker 1: to enlist in the United States Navy. This was something
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Speaker 1: his family was extremely proud of him for doing, especially
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Speaker 1: his grandfather, who had flown bomber planes during World War Two.
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Speaker 1: Following Brian's initial military training better known as boot camp,
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Speaker 1: he was sent to Aviation Machinist Mate School, which is
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Speaker 1: a military school for military members that teaches you how
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Speaker 1: to be a mechanic for all things that fly. And so,
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Speaker 1: after Brian breathed through the school, because he was already
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Speaker 1: a very skilled mechanic, and so it came to him naturally,
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Speaker 1: he was sent to his first duty station out in California.
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Speaker 1: And so he joins his californ unit, and immediately he
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Speaker 1: excels and he becomes one of the very best mechanics
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Speaker 1: at his unit, despite being one of the most junior.
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Speaker 1: And while he was in California, he also met his wife, Belinda,
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Speaker 1: and so over the next several years that he was
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Speaker 1: in California and then he moved around to Texas and
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Speaker 1: a couple other places, he just continued to shine at
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Speaker 1: work and at home. He and his wife began building
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Speaker 1: a family. They had two daughters, and so, by and large,
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Speaker 1: everything in Brian's life was going exactly to plant until
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Speaker 1: Brian made a terrible mistake. Fast forward to October fourth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and five and Brian, who was thirty two
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Speaker 1: at the time, was deployed with his unit to Bahrain,
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Speaker 1: which is a country in the Persian Gulf. That particular day, Brian,
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Speaker 1: along with two other mechanics from his unit and two
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Speaker 1: pilots from his unit, had been tasked with flying from
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Speaker 1: Bahrain north to Kuwait, which is another country in the
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Speaker 1: Persian Gulf. This was a routine flight about an hour long.
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Speaker 1: It was one they had made several times during this deployment.
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Speaker 1: Brian was not really looking forward to doing it, and
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Speaker 1: neither were the other people that were on this particular flight.
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Speaker 1: But Brian decided the way he would make this trip
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Speaker 1: less monotonous and boring is he would perform the stunt.
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Speaker 1: So Brian and the other two mechanics they load in
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Speaker 1: the back of this helicopter in the cargo area so
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Speaker 1: the passenger area of the se lo, and the two
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Speaker 1: pilots they load into the cockpit and within a couple
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Speaker 1: of minutes they were one hundred and twenty five feet
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Speaker 1: off the ground, careening forward out over the Persian Gulf
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Speaker 1: at over one hundred and twenty miles an hour. Brian
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Speaker 1: and the other two mechanics in the back of this
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Speaker 1: craft had elected to keep the back loading ramp that
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Speaker 1: folds up and down to allow people to come in
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Speaker 1: and out of this helicopter. They had decided to keep
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Speaker 1: it down for this flight. So basically they had this
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Speaker 1: huge opening that just looked straight down to the earth.
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Speaker 1: But this is a very common thing in the military.
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Speaker 1: Lots of helicopters when they're flying around, have either a
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Speaker 1: side door open or the back ramp down because it
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Speaker 1: provides an incredible view, and more importantly, it provides this
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Speaker 1: amazing inside of the cabin. A few minutes later, when
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Speaker 1: the helicopter is way out over the Persian Gulf, Brian
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Speaker 1: decides now is a good time to do this stunt,
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Speaker 1: and so he looks across at the other side of
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Speaker 1: the helicopter and kind of signals at the other two mechanics.
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Speaker 1: It's super loud inside of the back of a helo
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Speaker 1: and so there's no way they could have spoken to
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Speaker 1: each other besides with the headset, and they were not
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Speaker 1: about to speak about the stunt over the headset because
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Speaker 1: they didn't want the pilots to know. And so Brian
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Speaker 1: signaled to the other two because they were totally in
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Speaker 1: on his stunt he was about to do, and so
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Speaker 1: they grinned and one of them pulled out a camera
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Speaker 1: to be ready for what he was going to do.
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Speaker 1: And then Brian disconnected his helo lanyard. So inside of
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Speaker 1: a military helicopter, you'll find all these metal islets, these
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Speaker 1: little rings all over the floor, the walls, the ceiling,
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Speaker 1: and these are there in order to attach cargo or
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Speaker 1: strap things down, or to attach yourself a person inside
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Speaker 1: of the helicopter. And so the way you do that
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Speaker 1: is by using your helo lanyard. It's this belt you
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Speaker 1: wear that has this special strap that comes off the
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Speaker 1: front of it. The end of this one or two
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Speaker 1: foot long strap is a carabiner a clip, and you
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Speaker 1: clip that onto any of those islets, and so that
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Speaker 1: keeps you from flying out of the helicopter. If the
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Speaker 1: pilots need to maneuver suddenly, or if you lose altitude,
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Speaker 1: anything can happen inside. And so Brian removes his helo
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Speaker 1: lanyard and then grabs this stretch of nylon rope. It
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Speaker 1: was like a crudely built safety harness that kind of
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Speaker 1: functioned like a helo lanyard in the sense that there
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Speaker 1: was a carabiner on one end and on the other
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Speaker 1: there was a way to attach it to yourself. But
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Speaker 1: unlike it being this Belton kind of high tech system
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Speaker 1: that attached to him, it was really just kind of
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Speaker 1: a slip knot on one end of this ten foot
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Speaker 1: long line. And so Brian most likely had built this
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Speaker 1: ten foot long safety harness for this particular stunt, or
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Speaker 1: someone else had, but either way, he picks this up
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Speaker 1: after detaching his helo lanyard, and he puts the loop
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Speaker 1: end of this ten foot line, the slip knot end
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Speaker 1: over his head down to his waist and then cinched
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Speaker 1: it tight. And then he very carefully stood up and
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Speaker 1: walked towards the back of the helo, and then he
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Speaker 1: clipped the end of this ten foot line with the
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Speaker 1: carabiner into one of the islets on the ground right
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Speaker 1: where the back ramp begins to go down. And so
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Speaker 1: once that was in place, he turned and looked at
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Speaker 1: the other two mechanics and gave them one more thumbs up,
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Speaker 1: and then he got down on his hands and knees
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Speaker 1: and he begins crawling backwards down the ramp. And so
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Speaker 1: once he gets to the very edge of this ramp,
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Speaker 1: so literally right behind him is just the open air.
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Speaker 1: At that point, he grabs with his left hand one
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Speaker 1: of those metal rings that are on the actual ramp itself.
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Speaker 1: He gets a firm grip with one hand, and then
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Speaker 1: with his right hand he grabs the side of the
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Speaker 1: ramp or some metal framing there. And so once he
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Speaker 1: had a good grip and he felt confident in it,
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Speaker 1: he kind of slowly lowered his lower half until it
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Speaker 1: slipped off of the ramp, and as soon as it did,
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Speaker 1: the winds outside the helicopter the one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 1: mile an hour plus wins they immediately swept his legs
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Speaker 1: up and kind of held them in the air horizontal
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Speaker 1: like he was flying. And so he's holding on to
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Speaker 1: the back of the ramp, but his arms are kind
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Speaker 1: of tucked up in the chest. But once he feels
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Speaker 1: his legs up in the air, he slowly extends himself
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Speaker 1: and finally when they were fully extended, he was officially
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Speaker 1: doing the Superman stunt. This was called supermanning what he
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Speaker 1: was doing, and as soon as he was in this position,
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Speaker 1: the other crew members inside of the helicopter, they knew
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Speaker 1: this was it. Let's take some pictures and so one
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Speaker 1: of them got their camera out and took some pictures
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Speaker 1: of him, and Brian knows he's getting pictures taken. He's
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Speaker 1: holding on as tight as he can. And then after
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Speaker 1: the pictures were taken and Brian looked up and kind
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Speaker 1: of got the thumbs up that he was good, he
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Speaker 1: began trying to pull himself back into the helicopter, but
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Speaker 1: he lost his grip. And as soon as he lost
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Speaker 1: his grip, those one hundred and twenty mile an hour
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Speaker 1: plus wins they whipped him backwards. And the safety harness
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Speaker 1: that he had strapped around his waist that's the only
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Speaker 1: thing that caught him from flying away from the helicopter.
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Speaker 1: And so Brian attempts to try to grab the ramp,
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Speaker 1: but it's too far away. And as he's getting pulled
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Speaker 1: by the wind away from the helicopter, that harness that
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Speaker 1: was around his way, it rides up until it stops
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Speaker 1: right around his chest. And so at that point he
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Speaker 1: keeps his arms pinned by his side because he doesn't
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Speaker 1: want the harness to slip up over his shoulders, because
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Speaker 1: then he will fall to his death. But because this
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Speaker 1: harness was self tightening as he was whipping in the winds.
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Speaker 1: The wind was pulling him so hard away from the
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Speaker 1: helicopter that it was tightening that loop around his chest,
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Speaker 1: and so his chest got so tightly squeezed that it
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Speaker 1: caused him to pass out. And as soon as that happened,
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Speaker 1: his arms that were holding that harness in place while
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Speaker 1: his arms went limp, and then the wind whipped his
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Speaker 1: arms over his head, and the harness immediately slipped up
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Speaker 1: over his shoulders, off his head, off his arms, and
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Speaker 1: he went flying one hundred and twenty five feet all
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Speaker 1: the way down to the water below where he died.
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Speaker 1: There were at least eight people that were punished for
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Speaker 1: this incident, including the two crew members in the back
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Speaker 1: of the helicopter taking pictures because they were totally in
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Speaker 1: on this, but the details of the punishments were never
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Speaker 1: made public. In the late eighteen sixties, a group of
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Speaker 1: rugged American explorers came out of the wilderness and went
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Speaker 1: straight to a newspaper to tell them about this otherworldly
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Speaker 1: place they had found. And so the newspaper sat down,
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Speaker 1: they got their notepad out, and these explorers start describing
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Speaker 1: this place and they say, okay, well, it's this huge
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Speaker 1: expanse of wilderness, and in the middle of it there
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Speaker 1: are all these boiling lakes that are either neon green
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Speaker 1: or yellow or red or all of those, and they're
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Speaker 1: shooting boiling water into the sky. And there are these
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Speaker 1: breath taking waterfalls and snow capped mountains, and there are
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Speaker 1: bison and elk and wolves and bears just free roaming
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Speaker 1: the whole area. And so the newspaper they take all
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Speaker 1: this down and at the end of it they say, okay, guys, well,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately we don't publish fiction. But these explorers weren't lying.
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Speaker 1: They were describing an area that we now know as
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Speaker 1: Yellowstone National Park, which is this massive expanse of wilderness
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Speaker 1: in Wyoming that sits on top of a volcano. And
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Speaker 1: those boiling knee on, green, red, and yellow lakes really
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Speaker 1: do exist. Those are hot springs, and they are the
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Speaker 1: result of water passing by and making contact with underground
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Speaker 1: magma chambers. Today, Yellowstone is so popular that every year
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Speaker 1: millions of people go to the park, and so as
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Speaker 1: a result, the park employees hundreds of people year round
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Speaker 1: to keep up with tourism. Many of these employees are
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Speaker 1: young people, like college students, and in addition to being
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Speaker 1: paid for their work. The park also offers them the
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Speaker 1: ability to live in employee housing, which are basically dormitories
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Speaker 1: spaced all across the park to make it easier to
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Speaker 1: just be on site and do their job. And these
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Speaker 1: dormitories are either free or very low cost, and so
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Speaker 1: these young people typically take up that offer and will
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Speaker 1: stay inside of these dormitories for as long as they're
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Speaker 1: working at the park. And so in two thousand, a
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Speaker 1: twenty year old summer employee named Sarah Hulfer's she was
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Speaker 1: staying in one of these dormitories in the park and
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Speaker 1: she was in her room when a group of other
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Speaker 1: young employees that were staying in the storm came down
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Speaker 1: the wall and they knocked her door and they asked
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Speaker 1: her if she wanted to come with them to go swimming.
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Speaker 1: And so Sarah, she had a day off and she
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Speaker 1: wasn't doing anything, and so she said, sure, I'll come
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Speaker 1: with you guys. And so after they all got their
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Speaker 1: bathing suits on and got their towels and snacks packed,
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Speaker 1: they left the dormitories and got into a couple of
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Speaker 1: cars and then they drove over to this dirt lot
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Speaker 1: that was right up against this huge forest, and so
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Speaker 1: they parked, they got out, and they make their way
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Speaker 1: over to this trailhead that begins in the parking lot
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Speaker 1: and goes straight into this forest. And so they walked
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Speaker 1: down this trail until the trail goes right out of
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Speaker 1: the forest and brings them to the edge of this river.
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Speaker 1: And this river was called the Firehole River. It was
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Speaker 1: called that because the surface of this river steamed and
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Speaker 1: it gave the impression that this river was on fire.
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Speaker 1: The reason this happened is some of the water flowing
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Speaker 1: through this river would pass by those underground magma chambers,
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Speaker 1: warming it up. And so this is a lot like
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Speaker 1: the hot springs, except on a much smaller level. The
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Speaker 1: hot springs are boiling, whereas this river was just slightly
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Speaker 1: warmer to the point where it would steam totally safe
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Speaker 1: to swim in. So Sarah and the rest of this
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Speaker 1: group they come out of that trailhead and they're standing
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Speaker 1: on the edge of this beautiful river. And they walked
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Speaker 1: down to the edge and they all jump in, and
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Speaker 1: they had this great day. They're swimming around, they're playing games,
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Speaker 1: and they were only expecting to be there for a
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Speaker 1: couple of hours, but they were having so much fun
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Speaker 1: that before long the sun had gone down and they
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Speaker 1: were still in the river, and so when it was
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Speaker 1: dark out, they finally climbed out of the river and
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Speaker 1: they toweled off, and then they realized they had a
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Speaker 1: bit of a problem because they did not expect to
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Speaker 1: be there for as long as they were. No one
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Speaker 1: had brought flashlights, and the way back to the parking
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Speaker 1: lot would be going along that trail through the forest.
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Speaker 1: But that was a pretty far trail, and it's totally
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Speaker 1: pitch blackout. There's no ambient light, and realistically there's some
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Speaker 1: pretty big animals that live inside of that forest, and
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Speaker 1: so some people in this group were a little bit
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Speaker 1: nervous about walking through this forest. But ultimately about half
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Speaker 1: of the group said, you know what, whatever, let's just
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Speaker 1: run through the forest and get back to our cars
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Speaker 1: as fast as we can. I'm sure nothing will happen
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Speaker 1: to us, and the other half decided they would look
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Speaker 1: for an alternative route that would skirt the forest and
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Speaker 1: allow the moonlight to be their guide along the way.
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Speaker 1: That second group was made up of Sarah along with
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Speaker 1: two eighteen year old boys named Lance Bucci and Tyler Montague.
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Speaker 1: So Sarah and these two boys. They're standing there and
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Speaker 1: they're watching the first group go into the forest and disappear.
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Speaker 1: And then she, along with these two guys, they turn
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Speaker 1: right and they begin skirting the river and walking around
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Speaker 1: the forest. And so they walk downstream with the river
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Speaker 1: on one side and the forests on their left. And
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Speaker 1: they're walking for a while until they see up ahead
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Speaker 1: on their left it looks like the forest is starting
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Speaker 1: to thin out, maybe a little bit, and so they
19:37
Speaker 1: took that as an opportunity to cut left and basically
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Speaker 1: begin kind of going straight towards the parking lot, which
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Speaker 1: was generally off to their left. And so they make
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Speaker 1: that turn. They start walking and the terrain is relatively open.
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Speaker 1: It's this big open field with a couple of trees
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Speaker 1: here and there. It was pretty easy to navigate, and
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Speaker 1: they felt like, hey, we found a great alternative route.
19:57
Speaker 1: The moonlight still shine and through we've got great visibility.
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Speaker 1: And so they were walking along happy as can be,
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Speaker 1: and then they see there's a couple of streams up ahead.
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Speaker 1: They get to the first stream and it's not that big,
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Speaker 1: so they jump across it. They get to the next stream,
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Speaker 1: it's still not that big, they jump across that one,
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Speaker 1: and then they get to this third stream, and they realize,
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Speaker 1: you know, it's still pretty small, but it's significantly bigger
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Speaker 1: than the last two, and so if we misstime it,
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Speaker 1: we could fall into it. Now, this was not some
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Speaker 1: huge deal. They were already wet from having gone swimming,
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Speaker 1: but they didn't want to jump in this stream, and
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Speaker 1: so they considered walking off to the right and trying
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Speaker 1: to find an area that was more narrow they could
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Speaker 1: jump across more easily. But they figured they were probably
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Speaker 1: within maybe one or two hundred feet of the parking lot.
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Speaker 1: They couldn't see it, but they knew they were close,
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Speaker 1: and they really didn't want to go farther and farther
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Speaker 1: away to only have to just jump over this thing. Anyways,
20:46
Speaker 1: and so they decide, you know what, let's just jump
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Speaker 1: across it. Let's just do it. If we fall in,
20:49
Speaker 1: we fall in. And so the three of them backed
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Speaker 1: up from the stream to give themselves some running room,
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Speaker 1: and then they grabbed hands and at the same time,
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Speaker 1: all three of them ran forward and leapt across the stream,
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Speaker 1: and they cleared it. They landed on the other side,
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Speaker 1: but the ground they landed on was kind of loose
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Speaker 1: and soft, and so it kind of crumbled underneath them,
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Speaker 1: and they all fell backwards into the stream in the darkness.
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Speaker 1: This stream had looked like the other two streams they
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Speaker 1: had seen, albeit a little bit larger, and so they
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Speaker 1: were not thinking this could be potentially hazardous if they
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Speaker 1: fell into the water. But it would turn out this
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Speaker 1: stream was extremely hazardous. It was nothing like the other
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Speaker 1: two streams they had encountered. This one was run off
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Speaker 1: from a nearby hot spring, and so the temperature inside
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Speaker 1: of this stream was one hundred and seventy eight degrees fahrenheit,
21:37
Speaker 1: so it was practically boiling water, and it looked like
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Speaker 1: it was shallow, but in fact this stream was ten
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Speaker 1: feet deep. And so when this trio fell into these
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Speaker 1: scalding waters, they let out blood curdling streams. And the
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Speaker 1: other group that had ran down the forest path, they
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Speaker 1: had got to the parking lot and were waiting for them,
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Speaker 1: and so they hear this stream and they just take
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Speaker 1: off running in the direction of the screams. They cut
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Speaker 1: right through the forest and they come out to that
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Speaker 1: field and they find Lance and Tyler are on the
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Speaker 1: edge of the stream, desperately trying to pull Sarah out
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Speaker 1: of the water. And so the parking lot crew they
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Speaker 1: run over and they grab Sarah, they pull her out.
22:16
Speaker 1: They don't really know what's happened. They don't know this
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Speaker 1: is some boiling stream, but it very quickly dawns on
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Speaker 1: them when Lance and Tyler and Sarah just continue to
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Speaker 1: scream outside of the water that something is horribly wrong.
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Speaker 1: And so one of the people in the parking lot
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Speaker 1: crew they take off running. They go into one of
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Speaker 1: their cars and they drive and they get help, and not
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Speaker 1: that long after, a helicopter would arrive and it would
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Speaker 1: take Sarah, Lance and Tyler to a nearby hospital. It
22:40
Speaker 1: would turn out Lance and Tyler when they fell into
22:43
Speaker 1: this water, they only submerged up to their necks, and
22:47
Speaker 1: as soon as they hit the water, they immediately turned
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Speaker 1: and got themselves out again, so they were only in
22:52
Speaker 1: the water for maybe a second or two. And these
22:54
Speaker 1: things ultimately saved their lives. Although they did still have
22:57
Speaker 1: burns over almost their entire bodies. They had to go
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Speaker 1: through dozens and dozens of surgeries in years of rehab,
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Speaker 1: and they had to pay all this money for medical bills,
23:06
Speaker 1: so it was not a smooth course after they got
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Speaker 1: pulled out, but they lived. As for Sarah, she was
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Speaker 1: not as lucky. When she fell into the water, she
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Speaker 1: completely submerged, her head, her body, all of it went
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Speaker 1: under the water, and then she just could not get
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Speaker 1: herself out again, and so she stayed in the water
23:23
Speaker 1: much longer than the guys did. When she was admitted
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Speaker 1: to the hospital, despite the fact she was talking and conscious,
23:29
Speaker 1: the doctors very quickly realized they had a big problem
23:32
Speaker 1: with her. A third degree burn, or a full thickness burn,
23:36
Speaker 1: is when the outer layer of skin gets destroyed and
23:39
Speaker 1: also the inner, deeper tissues of the skin also gets destroyed,
23:43
Speaker 1: including these cells that are responsible for reproducing skin. And
23:47
Speaker 1: so if you get a third degree burn, that part
23:50
Speaker 1: of your body will not heal on its own. You
23:52
Speaker 1: literally have to get a skin graft, and a skin
23:55
Speaker 1: graft is effectively a skin transplant. They will take other
23:59
Speaker 1: sections of skin from your body that are unburned, and
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Speaker 1: they will place them over that site where you have
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Speaker 1: the third degree burned. But when Sarah was wheeled into
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Speaker 1: the operating room, it was determined that she had third
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Speaker 1: degree burns on one hundred percent of her body, so
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Speaker 1: there was no unburned skin to use for a skin graft.
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Speaker 1: Her whole body was ruined, and so despite their best efforts,
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Speaker 1: Sarah would pass away fifteen hours after arriving at the hospital.
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Speaker 1: A year later, Lance's family would sue the National Park
24:29
Speaker 1: Service for not having put up a sign near that
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Speaker 1: particular stream to warn people of its dangers, but that
24:36
Speaker 1: lawsuit was tossed out because it was determined that the
24:39
Speaker 1: trio Sarah, Tyler and Lance had chosen to walk off
24:43
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