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Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell three very strange disappearance stories,
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Speaker 1: At eight thirty pm on August twentieth, twenty ten, a
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Speaker 1: seventy six year old man named Jong walk through the
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Speaker 1: streets of New tie Paces, which is a major city
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Speaker 1: in northern Taiwan. Jong was on the end of an
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Speaker 1: evening walk and he was making his way back towards
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Speaker 1: his daughter's apartment, where he was also staying. And as
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Speaker 1: Jong neared the apartment, he happened to notice there was
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Speaker 1: a street lamp right outside with this big poster attached
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Speaker 1: to it that he hadn't seen before. And as he
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Speaker 1: got closer, he saw there was also this picture of
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Speaker 1: this middle aged woman whose name was Chun Yan Chui,
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Speaker 1: and apparently she was missing. And not only that, she
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Speaker 1: also lived in the same building that his daughter lived in,
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Speaker 1: except Chun was actually a dementia patient and she was
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Speaker 1: staying on the fifth floor of this apartment building complex
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Speaker 1: where there was this memory care facility, and that's where
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Speaker 1: she was being taken care of.
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Speaker 2: And about a.
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Speaker 1: Week earlier, she had gone out for an evening walk,
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Speaker 1: this is what had said on the poster, and just
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Speaker 1: not returned. And so since the week before, police had
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Speaker 1: been out looking for her and.
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Speaker 2: Her family and friends.
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Speaker 1: They were putting these posters up and it was clear,
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Speaker 1: you know, nobody had found her yet. Now Jung had
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Speaker 1: never met this woman, but he sort of felt bad
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Speaker 1: for her, and so he found himself staring at this
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Speaker 1: picture and trying to memorize her face.
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Speaker 2: You know, in the off chance that he just saw.
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Speaker 1: Her somewhere, he could report her to the authorities and
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Speaker 1: hopefully get her rescued. And so after staring at the picture,
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Speaker 1: for a little bit longer and sort of feeling bad
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Speaker 1: for this woman, Jung turned and just continued inside the
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Speaker 1: apartment building. And once he was in the apartment building,
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Speaker 1: he made his way over to the elevator. He hit
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Speaker 1: the up button and he waited, and then a moment
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Speaker 1: later there was a ding and the doors opened up.
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Speaker 1: He stepped onto the elevator, he pressed the button, the
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Speaker 1: doors closed, and then Jung waited as he headed up
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Speaker 1: to his daughter's apartment on the seventh floor. But as
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Speaker 1: he was going up, he noticed he had accidentally hit
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Speaker 1: the sixth floor, not the seventh floor. And right at
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Speaker 1: that moment he saw that he was reaching the sixth
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Speaker 1: floor and said the elevator car was slowing down, and
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Speaker 1: so he just was like, oh whoops, and he hit
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Speaker 1: floor seven. But by the time he hit floor seven,
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Speaker 1: the car had come to a stop on floor six
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Speaker 1: and the doors were opening, like it would need to reset.
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Speaker 1: Doors open on six, they close, and then he'd go
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Speaker 1: to seven, like this is no big deal. Jong is
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Speaker 1: just waiting, you know, for these doors to open shut
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Speaker 1: and go up one more floor. However, when the door's
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Speaker 1: opened on floor six, Jong is looking straight out and
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Speaker 1: he could not believe what he saw, and he just
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Speaker 1: began to scream. Around the same time this was happening,
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Speaker 1: Jong's daughter was finishing up her shift at work when
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Speaker 1: she got a phone call and she saw it was
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Speaker 1: coming from her dad, and he rarely called her when
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Speaker 1: she was at work, so this was sort of confusing
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Speaker 1: and surprising, and so right away she picked it up
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Speaker 1: and she answered, and immediately she hears her dad screaming incoherently.
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Speaker 1: He's obviously terrified, and all Jong's daughter can hear is
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Speaker 1: that her dad is saying he's trapped. He's trapped in
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Speaker 1: an elevator and he doesn't know what to do. And so,
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Speaker 1: you know, Jong's daughter is getting scared just based on
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Speaker 1: what her dad sounds like. She doesn't really know what's
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Speaker 1: going on, but she told her dad like, okay, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'll call the building. We'll get you some help, like
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Speaker 1: stay calm, you're gonna be okay, But her dad just
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Speaker 1: continued rambling and he was totally incoherent, and eventually, you know,
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Speaker 1: Jong's daughter just said, okay, Dad, like just hang tight,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to get you some help, and then she
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Speaker 1: hung up, and then she immediately called her apartment Buildings
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Speaker 1: Administration and Emergency Services line and told them, Hey, I
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Speaker 1: think my dad is stuck on one of your elevator cars.
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Speaker 1: He's really upset. Can you please help him? And after
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Speaker 1: getting the emergency services to get spun up into action
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Speaker 1: to go save her dad, Jong's daughter left work, hopped
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Speaker 1: in her car, and began rushing home. It would take
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Speaker 1: Jong's daughter about forty minutes to get back to her apartment,
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Speaker 1: and by the time she got there, she fully expected
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Speaker 1: her dad would be safely out of the elevator. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he was obviously very upset, but she had called the building,
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Speaker 1: they were on it, they were going to get him out.
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Speaker 1: But when she went inside the lobby of the apartment building,
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Speaker 1: she saw a crowd of police officers just standing there.
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Speaker 1: She didn't see her dad anywhere, and before she could
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Speaker 1: even ask any questions, she noticed one of the officers
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Speaker 1: was on the phone and clearly, just based on what
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Speaker 1: was being said by this officer, he was talking to
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Speaker 1: her father like he was talking to somebody who was hysterical,
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Speaker 1: and this officer was doing his best to try to
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Speaker 1: calm him down and sort of talk him.
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Speaker 2: Through what was happening.
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Speaker 1: And so Jong's daughter like immediately walks up to this
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Speaker 1: officer and says, hey, you know, I'm his daughter, the
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Speaker 1: guy who's stuck in the elevator, I'm his daughter. What's
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Speaker 1: going on? I would have figured he'd be out by now,
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Speaker 1: Like what's happened.
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Speaker 2: At this point, one.
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Speaker 1: Of the officers confirms that, you know, this really is
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Speaker 1: this man's daughter, and he pulls her aside and he
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Speaker 1: explains to her that, yes, your dad is still in
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Speaker 1: the elevator because we can't get him out. The reality
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Speaker 1: is is this is not a normal situation here. He's
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Speaker 1: trapped in there and really the only way for him
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Speaker 1: to get out is for him to do something really specific,
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Speaker 1: Like us and the building staff like we can't do anything.
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Speaker 1: He has to do this one really specific thing, and
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Speaker 1: right now he's refusing to do it. He's too panicked,
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Speaker 1: he's too scared. We're trying to calm him down, but
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Speaker 1: it's not working. And so Jong's daughter asked this officer,
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Speaker 1: can you please explain to me what you're talking about, Like,
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Speaker 1: what is this specific thing you want him to do?
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Speaker 2: I don't get it.
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Speaker 1: And at that point the officer kind of composed himself
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Speaker 1: and explained to the daughter, you know what was really
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Speaker 1: going on inside of that elevator car.
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Speaker 2: And after Jong's daughter heard it, I mean.
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Speaker 1: She was horrified, and she immediately understood why her dad
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Speaker 1: was so upset and unwilling to do this one particular
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Speaker 1: thing that would save him but would be pretty awful.
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Speaker 1: She got it, but she knew she would have to
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Speaker 1: hop on the phone and convince her dad that he
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Speaker 1: had to do it, like there was no other way,
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Speaker 1: And so she walked over to the officer who was
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Speaker 1: on the phone with her dad. She took the phone
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Speaker 1: and she began talking her dad through you know what
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Speaker 1: he really needed to do here.
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Speaker 2: She basically gave him a pep.
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Speaker 1: Talk and said, Dad, for me, you got to find
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Speaker 1: the strength and do this thing and get out of there.
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Speaker 1: And sure enough, just a couple of minutes later, the
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Speaker 1: elevator doors in the lobby chimed and opened up, and
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Speaker 1: Jong came stumbling out. He looked horrible, disheveled, but he
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Speaker 1: was okay, and right away police officers rushed towards him,
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Speaker 1: but they bypassed him and went into the elevator and
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Speaker 1: immediately surrounded some thing in the elevator car. It would
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Speaker 1: turn out that missing woman chun Yan Chuei, the woman
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Speaker 1: who was on that poster that Jong saw before he
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Speaker 1: walked into the apartment building. Well, she really had gone
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Speaker 1: missing a week earlier on her evening walk. But everybody
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Speaker 1: thought she got lost while she was on that walk
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Speaker 1: because she was a dementia patient and so you know
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Speaker 1: she had memory issues. But the reality was she actually
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Speaker 1: did come back to her apartment. However, when she got
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Speaker 1: on the elevator, she actually made the same mistake that
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Speaker 1: John did. Now she was not trying to get to
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Speaker 1: the seventh floor. She was trying to get to the
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Speaker 1: fifth floor, but she accidentally pressed the sixth floor, So
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Speaker 1: up she goes.
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Speaker 2: She gets to the sixth floor, the.
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Speaker 1: Doors open up, she steps off the elevator car, and
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Speaker 1: she's immediately completely confused. And for what it's worth, it
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Speaker 1: didn't matter that she had dementia. Anybody who got off
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Speaker 1: on the sixth floor would likely be confused if you
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Speaker 1: had never been to this building before, because the sixth
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Speaker 1: floor was actually a private residence and the person who
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Speaker 1: lived on that floor was so worried about people breaking
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Speaker 1: into their private residence that they had installed a metal
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Speaker 1: gate in front of the elevator doors, and so unless
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Speaker 1: you had the key to get through this gate, when
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Speaker 1: you got off on the sixth floor, you basically would
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Speaker 1: step onto a little platform that basically is the hallway
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Speaker 1: leading into the sixth floor, and then you'd be hit
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Speaker 1: with the gate. And so that's exactly what happened to Chun.
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Speaker 1: She got off on the sixth floor, maybe thinking this
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Speaker 1: is the fifth floor, she stepped onto that little narrow
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Speaker 1: strip that you could actually stand on on the sixth
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Speaker 1: floor before you reach the gate. And then as she
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Speaker 1: was trying to figure out, like, where am I. This
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Speaker 1: isn't the fifth floor, This doesn't make any sense. There's
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Speaker 1: a gate in front of me. The doors to the
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Speaker 1: elevator closed, and she had no way to open them
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Speaker 1: up again because the buttons to access the elevator were
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Speaker 1: beyond the gate. And so suddenly Chun is standing in
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Speaker 1: this narrow space the doors have closed behind her, and
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Speaker 1: she can't do anything. She's trapped between the gate and
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Speaker 1: the elevator doors. And even though people are using this
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Speaker 1: elevator right behind her. The only person who had come
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Speaker 1: to the sixth floor is the owner of that residence,
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Speaker 1: and they were on vacation and so for days and days,
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Speaker 1: Chun is just trapped basically in between the gate and
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Speaker 1: the elevator, with no one having any idea she was there.
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Speaker 1: She's calling out, she's doing everything she can to get
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Speaker 1: somebody's attention, but nobody can hear her. And after five
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Speaker 1: days of this, when the owner of this residence didn't
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Speaker 1: come home because they were on vacation, she eventually died
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Speaker 1: because she didn't have food.
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Speaker 2: Or water or anything.
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Speaker 1: She was just standing there for five days, and so
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Speaker 1: she dies. And then a couple of days later, Jong
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Speaker 1: accidentally rides to the sixth floor. He's like, oh, shoot,
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Speaker 1: I need to go to seven. He hits seven, but
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Speaker 1: the doors open on six, and when they do, Chun's body,
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Speaker 1: which had been basically frozen in the standing position, fell
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Speaker 1: backwards onto him, pinned him to the ground. He starts
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Speaker 1: screaming and freaking out. He gets out from underneath her,
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Speaker 1: but her body, which was in rigor mortis at this point,
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Speaker 1: is stiff, and she was lying like a board on
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Speaker 1: the ground with her feet jutting out onto the sixth
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Speaker 1: floor and her upper half inside of the elevator, and
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Speaker 1: so she was blocking the doors from closing, and.
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Speaker 2: So Jong is freaking out. He's calling his daughter. He
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Speaker 2: can't believe this. There's this dead person in here.
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Speaker 1: And eventually police get involved and they tell Jong, you
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Speaker 1: just got to move the body so the doors will close.
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Speaker 1: But again, her body is heavy and it's stiff, and
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Speaker 1: she's obviously deceased. She's starting to decompose, and Jong basically
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Speaker 1: couldn't handle it, and he was unwilling to move her
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Speaker 1: body until his daughter hopped in the phone and said,
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Speaker 1: you gotta do it, at which point he managed to
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Speaker 1: lift her up, get her out of the way, and
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Speaker 1: kind of push her off to the side of the
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Speaker 1: elevator car. He rode down to the bottom, at which
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Speaker 1: point the police came in and handled the situation. Now,
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Speaker 1: the owner of the sixth floor residence was not held
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Speaker 1: criminally responsible despite putting that gate up that created this
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Speaker 1: trap that killed Chun. However, despite that, he would end
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Speaker 1: up paying Chun's family about ninety seven thousand US dollars
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Speaker 1: equivalent just to compensate for her death. On the morning
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Speaker 1: of August eighteenth, twenty eighteen, a forty one year old
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Speaker 1: man named Vladimir Kostenko stepped out of a taxi onto
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Speaker 1: a desolate road in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness,
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Speaker 1: miles and miles from civilization. All he had with him
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Speaker 1: were his cell phone, a solar powered charger for his phone,
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Speaker 1: and a backpack that contained some clothes and five pounds
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Speaker 1: of oatmeal.
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Speaker 2: Vladimir bent down and leaned.
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Speaker 1: Into the taxi to pay the taxi driver, and as
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Speaker 1: he was doing that, the driver looked up at him
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Speaker 1: and just said, are you.
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Speaker 2: Sure you want to do this?
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Speaker 1: And Vladimir just smiled and nodded and said, yep, I'm
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Speaker 1: gonna be just fine.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry about me now.
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Speaker 1: The taxi driver did not really buy this and just
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Speaker 1: looked at Vladimir like he was completely insane.
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Speaker 2: Butladimir wasn't shocked.
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is kind of how everybody reacted to
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Speaker 1: him when he told them about this trip he was
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Speaker 1: doing into the wilderness, you know, when he had brought
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Speaker 1: it up to his family the first time, they and
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Speaker 1: all of their family friends had basically rallied together to
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Speaker 1: try to stop Vladimir from going on this trip. It
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Speaker 1: was way too dangerous. But Vladimir said, guys, I'm going,
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Speaker 1: like you can't stop me.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing this. It's important to me.
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Speaker 1: And at that point, when you know, the family and
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Speaker 1: friends knew they couldn't change his mind, they shifted and said, well,
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Speaker 1: at least, you know, bring a gun or bear spray or.
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Speaker 2: Something to protect yourself.
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Speaker 1: But Vladimir also refused that too. He said, nope, I
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Speaker 1: don't need any of that because the only thing I
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Speaker 1: need is God. God is going to protect me. So
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Speaker 1: Vladimir was extremely religious. He actually had left his home
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Speaker 1: country Russia when he was in his early twenties because
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Speaker 1: he was being persecuted for his Christian beliefs. And so
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Speaker 1: now in the United States, he lived out in Washington
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Speaker 1: State and basically lived.
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Speaker 2: His life like a monk.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he spent the majority of his time I'm
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Speaker 1: you know, basically praying and meditating and reading religious books,
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Speaker 1: and he would often go on these multi day long fasts.
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Speaker 1: He did work part time as a mechanic, but he
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Speaker 1: rarely charged his clients when he did work, and then
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Speaker 1: even when he did charge them, he was working so
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Speaker 1: few hours that the money he was making was totally unsubstantial.
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Speaker 1: But again, you know, the way Vladimir looked at this
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Speaker 1: is he didn't need money because ultimately God would take
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Speaker 1: care of him. But despite all of his fasting and
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Speaker 1: his praying and you know, his generosity, lately Vladimir had
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Speaker 1: been feeling really lost, like he did feel deeply spiritual,
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Speaker 1: but at the same time, he didn't really feel fulfilled,
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Speaker 1: like he felt like he was missing purpose in his life,
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Speaker 1: and it was really starting to bother him. And so
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Speaker 1: it was around this time that Vladimir decided to go
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Speaker 1: on this big trip. One of Vladimir's family friends was
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Speaker 1: this guy named Dmitri Kudrine, and he owned this small
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Speaker 1: cabin way out in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness. Now,
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Speaker 1: Dmitri didn't use this cabin very much, but.
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Speaker 2: He kept it in great shape.
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Speaker 1: It was fully furnished, there was a wood burning stove inside,
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Speaker 1: and the pantry was stocked with three years supply of food.
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Speaker 1: And so at some point when Vladimir and Dmitri were
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Speaker 1: talking and Vladimir talked about feeling sort of lost and
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Speaker 1: wanting to reconnect with the spirituality and find his purpose
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Speaker 1: in life, well, at some point Dmitri said, well, hey,
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Speaker 1: if you want, you can go use my cabin and
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Speaker 1: sort of disconnect from society and go retreat out there
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Speaker 1: and sort of focus on yourself and sort of get
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Speaker 1: right with the world. You know, you're welcome to go
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Speaker 1: out there anytime you want. You can stay out there
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Speaker 1: as long as you want, and for free, no problem,
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Speaker 1: and Vladimir had happily accepted. And now here he was
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Speaker 1: standing on this desolate road in the Alaskan wilderness, watching
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Speaker 1: as the taxi driver drove away. Except he wasn't even
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Speaker 1: close to the cabin. I mean, he was in the
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Speaker 1: middle of nowhere already, but he still had to go
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Speaker 1: fourteen more miles with no trail to make his way
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Speaker 1: to this cabin. But Vladimir was so excited. He really
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Speaker 1: felt like this was the thing he needed to fit
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Speaker 1: figure out his purpose in life, and so he put
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Speaker 1: his backpack on, took a deep breath, and began to hike.
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Speaker 1: Three months later, on November third of twenty eighteen, Dmitri,
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Speaker 1: Vladimir's friend who owned this cabin, found himself in his
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Speaker 1: plane flying over the area roughly where his cabin was,
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Speaker 1: and Dmitri was feeling very concerned. So obviously, Dmitri suggested
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Speaker 1: Vladimir go out and use this cabin, and so he
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Speaker 1: was totally open to the idea of it, but Dmitri
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Speaker 1: had also told Vladimir that when he went out there,
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Speaker 1: he really ought to bring a gun with him, or,
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Speaker 1: if nothing else, at least some bare spray or something
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Speaker 1: to protect himself, because this is truly the wild. You
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Speaker 1: are not the top of the food chain anymore, and
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Speaker 1: you want to be able to protect yourself. But Vladimir
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Speaker 1: had said, no, he would not be going with any
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Speaker 1: sort of weaponry, that you know, God was going to
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Speaker 1: look after him and he'd be fine. And Dmitri's like,
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Speaker 1: that's a bad plan, but he just could not convince
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Speaker 1: Vladimir to change his mind, and so ultimately Dmitri sort
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Speaker 1: of regretit even suggesting this idea because he didn't expect
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Speaker 1: Vladimir to go unarmed. But he felt like, you know what,
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Speaker 1: it's already in motion, and so he told Vladimir, Okay, fine,
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Speaker 1: you know, do your thing, but when you're out there,
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Speaker 1: I need you to communicate with me regularly so I
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Speaker 1: know you're okay, and Vladimir promised he would, and at
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Speaker 1: first that is exactly what happened. Vladimir, you know, made
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Speaker 1: the fourteen mile hike from where he was dropped by
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Speaker 1: the taxi. He got to the cabin, he got all
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Speaker 1: set up, and then just about every other day or
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Speaker 1: every few days, he would hike up this nearby mountain
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Speaker 1: where there was cell phone service, and he would update Dmitri.
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Speaker 2: He would tell him that things were going great.
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Speaker 1: He was spending lots of time meditating and praying, and
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Speaker 1: you know, he was forging for berries, and there was
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Speaker 1: this this pesky squirrel that kept coming in and stealing
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Speaker 1: his foods. He was trying to figure out what to
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Speaker 1: do with the squirrel. But clearly things were going fine
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Speaker 1: and Vladimir appeared to be safe. However, after six weeks
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Speaker 1: of Vladimir being at this cabin, those pretty regular updates
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Speaker 1: just abrupt stopped.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: At first, Dmitri kind of chalked it up as like, well,
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Speaker 1: you know, I've been talking to him for weeks. There
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Speaker 1: didn't appear to be any you know, burgeoning crises or
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Speaker 1: anything going on in his life that might warrant some concern.
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Speaker 2: You know, he's a capable guy.
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Speaker 1: You know, maybe because it's the Alaskan winter, and Alaskan
17:16
Speaker 1: winters are notoriously dark, there's not a lot of sunlight.
17:19
Speaker 1: You know, maybe his solar powered charger isn't working. He
17:22
Speaker 1: can't get enough sunlight, so he can't charge his phone,
17:25
Speaker 1: and so maybe that's what it is. He just can't
17:26
Speaker 1: contact me because his phone doesn't turn on. Basically, Dmitri
17:30
Speaker 1: was coming up with these sort of rationales for why
17:33
Speaker 1: he wasn't hearing from his friend. But as the days
17:35
Speaker 1: went on and Dmitri still didn't hear from Vladimir, he
17:39
Speaker 1: couldn't help but start to feel like.
17:42
Speaker 2: Something's wrong here.
17:43
Speaker 1: And so finally, in early November, when Dmitri still had
17:46
Speaker 1: not heard from Vladimir it's been about a month since
17:49
Speaker 1: those text messages stopped, Dmitri decided to get into his
17:52
Speaker 1: plane and fly out over the area where this cabin
17:56
Speaker 1: was and literally look down and see if his friend
17:59
Speaker 1: was down there in the cabin. Also, this gave Dmitri
18:02
Speaker 1: the opportunity to put some supplies on the plane and
18:04
Speaker 1: these big buckets that he could literally throw out down
18:08
Speaker 1: to Vladimir to also restock him. So Dmitri is now
18:11
Speaker 1: in his plane and he's circling around the area where
18:14
Speaker 1: his cabin is. But this cabin is really small, and
18:17
Speaker 1: it's sort of in this big sea of trees, I mean,
18:20
Speaker 1: there's nothing else for miles and so it's pretty difficult
18:23
Speaker 1: with the naked eye to actually look out and see
18:25
Speaker 1: his own cabin.
18:26
Speaker 2: But Dmitri had.
18:27
Speaker 1: This camera on the underside of his plane that he
18:30
Speaker 1: could maneuver and look all around, and he had the
18:32
Speaker 1: screen that he could see from the cockpit that was
18:34
Speaker 1: basically an enhanced view of the ground down below. It
18:37
Speaker 1: was a lot easier to see, for example, his cabin.
18:40
Speaker 1: And so as he was circling, he's moving the camera
18:42
Speaker 1: around and then bam, he sees right in the middle
18:45
Speaker 1: of his screen is his cabin. And there doesn't appear
18:47
Speaker 1: to be anything wrong with the cabin. You know, it
18:50
Speaker 1: all looks good. There's smoke coming up out of the chimney.
18:52
Speaker 1: And as he's circling, he's thinking, okay, Vladimir clearly is
18:56
Speaker 1: going to hear me. He's going to come outside, and
18:58
Speaker 1: I'll see that he's okay. Sure enough, As he's circling around,
19:02
Speaker 1: Dmitri sees on his screen that the front door of
19:05
Speaker 1: the cabin opens and his friend Vladimir walks right.
19:08
Speaker 2: Outside onto the porch.
19:09
Speaker 1: He puts his hands on his hips and he looks
19:11
Speaker 1: up and he waves at Dmitri, and there's this moment
19:14
Speaker 1: of clear recognition, like obviously Vladimir knows this is Dmitri
19:18
Speaker 1: coming to check on him, and like, you know, Vladimir's
19:21
Speaker 1: down there kind of gesticulating that hey, you know, everything's fine.
19:23
Speaker 1: I'm good, you know, sorry about the phone thing or
19:26
Speaker 1: you know, Dmitri didn't know what he was doing, but
19:27
Speaker 1: it just sort of seemed like, okay, there's recognition here
19:30
Speaker 1: that it's been.
19:31
Speaker 2: A month, but everything is fine.
19:32
Speaker 1: And so Dmitri got down nice and low and continued
19:35
Speaker 1: to circle in. On one of his passes over the cabin,
19:38
Speaker 1: he pulled a lever, dropped the supplies.
19:40
Speaker 2: Those buckets of supplies.
19:41
Speaker 1: They landed down below, and then as Dmitri continued to circle,
19:45
Speaker 1: he watched on the camera as Vladimir walked up and
19:48
Speaker 1: put his hands on the supplies and waved again to Dmitri,
19:51
Speaker 1: sort of signaling, you know, thank you for the supplies.
19:54
Speaker 1: And at that point, Dmitri's thinking, okay, Vladimir's just fine,
19:57
Speaker 1: everything's good. I can go home, and so that's what
19:59
Speaker 1: he now. He would have landed and gone and seen
20:03
Speaker 1: Vladimir up close, but you know, there wasn't anywhere to
20:06
Speaker 1: land anywhere nearby, Like this was the closest he could
20:09
Speaker 1: get to Vladimir, and so he decided this was enough.
20:12
Speaker 1: So Dmitri he turned around and he headed home. But
20:14
Speaker 1: about two months later, on December twenty third, Dmitri was
20:18
Speaker 1: once again in his plane flying over the area where
20:21
Speaker 1: his cabin was because over these last two months he
20:24
Speaker 1: continued not to get any text messages or any communication
20:28
Speaker 1: from Vladimir, which, you know, that was bad. He sort
20:30
Speaker 1: of expected that given that Dmitri flew out there before
20:33
Speaker 1: and they clearly recognized like, hey, you know, are you good.
20:36
Speaker 1: There was sort of a moment of recognition that Dmitri's
20:40
Speaker 1: checking in on Vladimir because of the silence. That's what
20:42
Speaker 1: Dmitri's thinking, maybe that would inspire Vladimir to find a
20:46
Speaker 1: way to send out communications now, like let Dmitri know
20:50
Speaker 1: he's okay, but he hadn't for two months, and so
20:53
Speaker 1: Dimitri's thinking, okay, that's bad. Also, it's now December and
20:57
Speaker 1: the winter in Alaska is full boar, I mean, tons
21:00
Speaker 1: of snow on the ground, it's frigid temperatures, it is
21:03
Speaker 1: truly brutal winter conditions. And then lastly, there had also
21:07
Speaker 1: just been this major earthquake in the area where Dmitri's
21:11
Speaker 1: cabin was, and so all those things combined made Dmitri think, okay,
21:15
Speaker 1: I better get out there and just check on Vladimir again.
21:18
Speaker 1: And so once again, Dmitri is circling low over the
21:20
Speaker 1: area where his cabin is. He's got his camera trained
21:23
Speaker 1: towards the ground and he's moving it around as he's circling,
21:26
Speaker 1: and eventually he finds his cabin, and his cabin is
21:29
Speaker 1: clearly in one piece, so the earthquake did.
21:31
Speaker 2: Not destroy his cabin.
21:33
Speaker 1: But there's no sign of Vladimir anywhere. But then again,
21:36
Speaker 1: like you know, this is just the first second he's
21:37
Speaker 1: seen the cabin. He's only been in the area for
21:40
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. Now, maybe Vladimir has not heard
21:43
Speaker 1: the plane yet, and so you know, Dmitri's not lost hope,
21:46
Speaker 1: And he continues to circle, and as he's circling, he
21:49
Speaker 1: drops these supply buckets that land right out in front
21:51
Speaker 1: of the cabin. And at this point Dimitri's thinking, okay,
21:54
Speaker 1: that's pretty noisy, having these supply buckets smash into the
21:57
Speaker 1: ground outside. Certainly now Vladimir is going to come outside
22:00
Speaker 1: to see what's going on. I mean, there's not much
22:03
Speaker 1: else happening. This clearly is something that would draw his attention,
22:06
Speaker 1: but no nobody comes out of the cabin, and so
22:08
Speaker 1: at this point Dimitri gets as low as he possibly can,
22:11
Speaker 1: and he's got his camera trained right at the cabin,
22:14
Speaker 1: and as he's doing another pass, he realizes something. There's
22:18
Speaker 1: no smoke coming out of the chimney. In fact, the
22:21
Speaker 1: top of the chimney is covered with snow, which means
22:24
Speaker 1: clearly no fire has been lit, at least not recently,
22:28
Speaker 1: and so Dimitri starts to panic, like, if anybody was
22:31
Speaker 1: in that cabin right now without a fire lit, it
22:34
Speaker 1: would be so cold they would likely freeze to death
22:37
Speaker 1: really quickly, Like this is a crisis, what's going on
22:41
Speaker 1: with Vladimir. But Dmitri couldn't land anywhere nearby, like there
22:45
Speaker 1: was no way for him to really get down to
22:47
Speaker 1: this cabin, so he had to fly all the way
22:50
Speaker 1: to the nearest airport, and then once he touched down,
22:53
Speaker 1: he immediately contacted Alaska State troopers to report his friend missing,
22:57
Speaker 1: because that was the only thing he could think to do. However,
23:00
Speaker 1: after Dmitri made this report, the state troopers didn't launch
23:03
Speaker 1: some huge search for Vladimir and that's in part because
23:06
Speaker 1: they weren't actually sure he was missing. They understood that Dmitri,
23:10
Speaker 1: after flying out over the area, had seen snow on
23:13
Speaker 1: the chimney cap and you know, it's really cold out,
23:16
Speaker 1: like nobody could survive without a fire.
23:18
Speaker 2: And also, you know, he flew over.
23:19
Speaker 1: The area dropped supplies and Vladimir didn't come out of
23:23
Speaker 1: the cabin. How could he not hear that stuff. They
23:25
Speaker 1: understood that, but they're also thinking, like, you know, it's
23:27
Speaker 1: possible Vladimir just might not have been in the area.
23:30
Speaker 1: Maybe he was out hunting or you know, foraging for
23:33
Speaker 1: food or whatever he was doing, and maybe he just
23:35
Speaker 1: wasn't in the area, and that's why it gave you
23:37
Speaker 1: the impression that he was missing. And so that was
23:39
Speaker 1: one part of it. And the other part is the
23:42
Speaker 1: weather was atrocious in this part of the world, and
23:45
Speaker 1: so just sending out a search party into the terrible weather,
23:48
Speaker 1: out into the wilderness was really risky, and so the
23:52
Speaker 1: troopers thought it just wasn't worth doing this big search,
23:55
Speaker 1: and so instead of launching a big search, the troopers
23:58
Speaker 1: told Dmitri that what they were going to do instead
24:01
Speaker 1: is just comb through airline records local airline records to
24:04
Speaker 1: see if maybe a Vladimir Kostenko had you know, taken
24:08
Speaker 1: off and flown out of the area. You know, maybe
24:10
Speaker 1: he didn't tell Dmitri and he just left. Maybe that's
24:13
Speaker 1: why he's not there. And this really frustrated Dmitri and
24:16
Speaker 1: the rest of Vladimir's family because they're all looking at
24:19
Speaker 1: this as a true emergency, and they're thinking, there's no
24:22
Speaker 1: way he just hopped on a plane and flew out
24:24
Speaker 1: of here without telling anyone. And so finally, three days
24:27
Speaker 1: after filing this missing person report, Dmitri said, enough is enough.
24:31
Speaker 1: I'm gonna just take it into my own hands and
24:33
Speaker 1: go out there myself and see what's going on with Vladimir.
24:36
Speaker 1: So he chartered a private helicopter and he flew out
24:39
Speaker 1: to the cabin, and when he got there, he gets
24:41
Speaker 1: off the helicopter and he just scans the property and
24:44
Speaker 1: he sees, you know, this little cabin and there's you know,
24:46
Speaker 1: firewood outside stacked up with snow all over it. There's
24:49
Speaker 1: loads of snow in the cabin, and there's snow kind
24:52
Speaker 1: of drifted up on the front door, making it seem
24:54
Speaker 1: like nobody's come in or out of this cabin for
24:56
Speaker 1: some time, and you know, Dmitri, he's looking around for Vladimir,
24:59
Speaker 1: but there's no sign of life anywhere. Dmitri calls out
25:03
Speaker 1: for Vladimir, but there's no response, and so, with some
25:06
Speaker 1: level of trepidation, Dmitri begins walking out towards his cabin,
25:10
Speaker 1: and when he gets close enough to the front door,
25:13
Speaker 1: he notices something weird. He sees that the front door
25:15
Speaker 1: of this cabin has clearly been boarded up from the outside.
25:19
Speaker 1: There's this big piece of metal that's been placed basically
25:23
Speaker 1: blocking the door so nobody could go inside of it.
25:25
Speaker 1: And so Dimitri's thinking, like, why would you do this
25:28
Speaker 1: unless you were leaving the cabin, But why would Vladimir
25:31
Speaker 1: leave the cabin? Like where is he? I don't understand
25:33
Speaker 1: what's going on here. And so Dmitri goes up to
25:36
Speaker 1: this piece of metal and pries it off the front door,
25:39
Speaker 1: and then he swings open the front door and he
25:40
Speaker 1: looks inside and everything is pristine. Vladimir is not inside,
25:45
Speaker 1: but the cabin looks immaculate. There's still firewood, there's still food,
25:50
Speaker 1: there's no sign of chaos, no sign of any struggle whatsoever.
25:54
Speaker 1: Like everything looks exactly like it should. And so Dimitri
25:57
Speaker 1: he began walking around inside of this cabin look for
26:00
Speaker 1: any clue as to what happened to Vladimir, but there
26:04
Speaker 1: was nothing until he got to the firewood. He noticed
26:07
Speaker 1: that clearly Vladimir had been labeling his firewood. There was
26:11
Speaker 1: one piece of firewood in particular where the writing was
26:14
Speaker 1: very clear and what it said was frankensonse aroma do
26:19
Speaker 1: not burn. And so Dmitri's looking at this piece of wood,
26:22
Speaker 1: you know, that's been labeled as something that he shouldn't
26:24
Speaker 1: be burning, and he's looking at other pieces of wood
26:27
Speaker 1: that also have some level of labeling on them, and
26:29
Speaker 1: he's thinking, like, what does that mean? I don't understand
26:32
Speaker 1: that at all.
26:33
Speaker 2: But that was it.
26:34
Speaker 1: There was no other clues about where Vladimir had gone,
26:37
Speaker 1: and even the labeling of the wood like that didn't
26:39
Speaker 1: give him anything. And so the impression that Dmitri got
26:42
Speaker 1: after seeing this firsthand was that at some point, Vladimir,
26:46
Speaker 1: for reasons completely unknown, just decided to board up the
26:50
Speaker 1: cabin and disappear into the Alaskan wilderness with basically no protection,
26:56
Speaker 1: no clear sign.
26:56
Speaker 2: He even brought food with him.
26:58
Speaker 1: He just got up and left friends and family, and
27:01
Speaker 1: even some authorities believe there is a chance he could
27:04
Speaker 1: still be out there somewhere. In fact, at one point
27:07
Speaker 1: authorities thought they had found Vladimir in Hawaii, it turned
27:10
Speaker 1: out not to be him, and then again they thought
27:12
Speaker 1: they found him in Oregon it turned out not to
27:14
Speaker 1: be him as well. But the case is still open
27:16
Speaker 1: and authorities think, at least some do, that he might
27:19
Speaker 1: be alive somewhere, but nobody knows where, and so at
27:22
Speaker 1: this point all the family has to go off of
27:25
Speaker 1: is the final image of Vladimir, which was taken from
27:28
Speaker 1: inside of Dmitri's plane when he did that first flyover
27:31
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27:34
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27:37
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27:40
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27:42
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27:46
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Speaker 1: At seven pm on October twenty first, nineteen seventy eight,
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29:08
Speaker 1: to an island called King Island. And he was really
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Speaker 1: excited about this flight, not so much about where he
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Speaker 1: was going, but because this represented the first time he'd
29:17
Speaker 1: actually be flying by himself.
29:19
Speaker 2: At night.
29:20
Speaker 1: So Frederick had always dreamed of becoming a pilot, but
29:24
Speaker 1: the journey to actually becoming one had been really difficult.
29:28
Speaker 1: He had applied twice actually to the Royal Australian Air Force,
29:31
Speaker 1: but unfortunately he could not meet their requirements. And then
29:35
Speaker 1: also he had tried to become a commercial airline pilot,
29:38
Speaker 1: but he had filled their tests. But luckily for Frederick,
29:41
Speaker 1: his father had a ton of money and he ultimately
29:43
Speaker 1: swooped in and funded Frederick to take some private lessons
29:47
Speaker 1: and through that he was able to ultimately pass the
29:49
Speaker 1: tests and get his pilot's license. And so as Frederick
29:52
Speaker 1: coasted along, looking down below at the lights of Melbourne
29:56
Speaker 1: disappearing behind him, he felt like he was on top
29:58
Speaker 1: of the world. He was doing the one thing he
30:00
Speaker 1: had always dreamed of, and he was so happy, and
30:03
Speaker 1: it was so cool to be doing it at night
30:05
Speaker 1: by himself. And so he was just looking out at
30:08
Speaker 1: the sights and looking ahead at the Bass Strait, which
30:10
Speaker 1: is this huge dark expanse of water, and it was
30:14
Speaker 1: like everything was right in the world. He was doing
30:16
Speaker 1: exactly what he wanted to do. However, only a few
30:19
Speaker 1: minutes into this flight, at seven oh six PM. Something
30:23
Speaker 1: strange happened. As Frederick was flying along, he suddenly became
30:27
Speaker 1: aware of a light coming from somewhere behind him. Remember
30:30
Speaker 1: it's nighttime, so it's totally dark where he is, and
30:33
Speaker 1: he's flying over a body of water, so he's kind
30:35
Speaker 1: of like in this void of darkness, and so any
30:38
Speaker 1: lights are really going to illuminate the cockpit. And so
30:40
Speaker 1: he sees this light, he turns around and maybe three
30:44
Speaker 1: or four thousand feet behind him, he sees what looks
30:46
Speaker 1: like a plane that is the source of the light.
30:48
Speaker 1: And right away, Frederick's thinking that is both surprising and
30:52
Speaker 1: also potentially very problematic, because he knew from his training
30:55
Speaker 1: that that was far too close to be to another plane,
30:59
Speaker 1: and so the only explanation was either that pilot was
31:02
Speaker 1: off course or Frederick was off course. And Frederick's thinking,
31:06
Speaker 1: you know, if I'm off course here and I'm flying
31:08
Speaker 1: where I shouldn't be, I'm gonna get in trouble with
31:10
Speaker 1: air traffic control, and I might lose my pilot's license,
31:13
Speaker 1: like the one thing I cup it, I might lose it.
31:16
Speaker 1: And so initially Frederick really didn't know what to do.
31:19
Speaker 1: He was sort of panicking and just kind of frozen,
31:21
Speaker 1: like I don't even know what I'm supposed.
31:23
Speaker 2: To do right now. And as this was happening.
31:25
Speaker 1: Frederick kept instinctively looking back at this light, trying to
31:28
Speaker 1: figure out what this plane was doing. And every time
31:31
Speaker 1: he would turn around, over the course of just a
31:33
Speaker 1: few seconds, it was very obvious that this light, this
31:37
Speaker 1: other plane was gaining on him, and so Frederick starts
31:40
Speaker 1: to worry, like, this is not just about maybe getting
31:42
Speaker 1: in trouble or not. This plane might crash into me.
31:45
Speaker 1: Look how fast they're going, Like what do I do?
31:47
Speaker 1: And so Frederick at this point he double checked that
31:49
Speaker 1: he was on course, and based on his instruments and
31:52
Speaker 1: what he'd been doing, he really felt like he was
31:54
Speaker 1: on course here, and he just thinks, you know what,
31:56
Speaker 1: the best thing I can do here is just call
31:58
Speaker 1: air traffic control. So he grabs the radio and he
32:01
Speaker 1: gets a hold of Melbourne air Traffic Control and he says, hey,
32:04
Speaker 1: there's this plane that is like right behind me. They're
32:07
Speaker 1: gaining on me. I'm worried they're going to crash into me.
32:10
Speaker 1: Do I need to deviate? Like what's going on here?
32:12
Speaker 1: And the air traffic controller very calmly says Okay, let
32:15
Speaker 1: me check the radar, let me check the schedules. And
32:17
Speaker 1: so Frederick the whole time he's waiting for a response,
32:20
Speaker 1: he's looking over his shoulder, and still this light is
32:22
Speaker 1: gaining on him. It's getting closer and closer. And then
32:25
Speaker 1: finally the controller gets back on the radio and they
32:28
Speaker 1: tell Frederick, there is no other aircraft anywhere near you, like,
32:32
Speaker 1: there's nothing over the bass straight you are completely alone.
32:36
Speaker 1: But Frederick couldn't believe this because by now the light,
32:40
Speaker 1: the aircraft that was right behind him, has gotten right
32:44
Speaker 1: behind his It's basically right on his tail. And Frederick
32:47
Speaker 1: is now completely panicked, and he's getting ready to try
32:50
Speaker 1: to explain, like no, wait a minute, like there's got
32:53
Speaker 1: to be a better explanation here, there's something right here.
32:56
Speaker 1: But at that very moment, it becomes very clear to
32:59
Speaker 1: Frederick that this is not some ordinary aircraft, because it
33:03
Speaker 1: began doing something when it got right up behind his
33:05
Speaker 1: aircraft that no normal aircraft could do.
33:09
Speaker 2: This light suddenly began orbiting Frederick's aircraft.
33:14
Speaker 1: Frederick is traveling forward and this ball of light is
33:18
Speaker 1: basically whipping around his aircraft as fast as can be.
33:21
Speaker 1: He can barely make it out. He's starting to panic,
33:24
Speaker 1: and at the same time, Frederick begins to hear the
33:26
Speaker 1: sound of his engine starting to fail, and there was
33:29
Speaker 1: no reason for it. His craft was fine when he
33:31
Speaker 1: took off, but now it's clearly sputtering and failing, and
33:35
Speaker 1: so all Frederick could do in this totally intense, panicked
33:38
Speaker 1: moment that just grabbed the radio and begin talking to
33:41
Speaker 1: air traffic control about what he was seeing. The person
33:43
Speaker 1: Frederick actually spoke to on the ground in this moment
33:47
Speaker 1: was an air traffic controller in Melbourne named Steve Roby,
33:50
Speaker 1: and Frederick would come off to Steve like he was
33:53
Speaker 1: totally crazy and unhinged, and Steve would say that he
33:56
Speaker 1: couldn't really understand what he was talking about. But at
33:58
Speaker 1: some point Frederick clearly began talking about some sort of
34:02
Speaker 1: craft orbiting his own and that his engine was starting
34:06
Speaker 1: to fail and he didn't know what was going to happen,
34:07
Speaker 1: and he couldn't make an emergency landing he was over water.
34:11
Speaker 1: And then suddenly Steve remembers hearing this grinding, metallic sound
34:15
Speaker 1: come over the radio that basically washed out whatever Frederick
34:18
Speaker 1: was saying, and then it just goes deadly silent. And
34:22
Speaker 1: after that Frederick disappeared. They searched the area where they
34:26
Speaker 1: knew he was before he disappeared, but they never found
34:28
Speaker 1: his plane. There was no sign of a crash. He
34:31
Speaker 1: never landed at King Island or went back to Melbourne.
34:34
Speaker 2: He was just gone.
34:35
Speaker 1: All they have is that final recording of him describing
34:38
Speaker 1: something orbiting him, then this grinding metallic sound and then silence,
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Speaker 1: And recently that audio recording was made public. Now before
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Speaker 1: I actually play a clip from that audio, here's the
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Speaker 1: official explanation for what happened to Frederick.
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Speaker 2: As he was flying over the Bas Strait.
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Speaker 1: It was so dark and there were no lights really
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Speaker 1: anywhere that at some point, because he's an inexperienced pilot,
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Speaker 1: I suppose he flipped his plane upside down without realizing it,
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Speaker 1: and the light that he was seeing was actually just
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Speaker 1: a reflection off the water below of his own plane,
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Speaker 1: and eventually, from flying upside down, his engine began to
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Speaker 1: fail and he crashed into the Bass Strait. However, not
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Speaker 1: everybody believes this explanation, because one, it seems sort of
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Speaker 1: preposterous to imagine that Frederick would not have realized he
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Speaker 1: had flipped the plane upside down and was flying for
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Speaker 1: so long inverted, like how could you not notice that?
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Speaker 1: And two, this would not be the first time that
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Speaker 1: somebody reported unexplained phenomena over the Bass Straight. In fact,
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Speaker 1: over the years leading up to this incident with Frederick,
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Speaker 1: there had been so many reports of UFOs flying over
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Speaker 1: the Bass Straight and also unexplained disappearances that they've dubbed
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Speaker 1: the Bass Straight the Bass Straight Triangle after the Bermuda Triangle. Basically,
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Speaker 1: it's a part of the world where a disproportionate number
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Speaker 1: of unexplained phenomena occur. To this day, Frederick's disappearance remains
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Speaker 1: a mystery. All we have is his final call for.
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Speaker 3: Help light aircraft?
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Speaker 4: Is it okay?
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Speaker 3: That was deleted from the present counts for some reason?
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Speaker 4: UH all calling down.
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Speaker 3: Tell us her Juliet and concur. You cannot identify the aircraft?
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Speaker 3: Tell Napery Julia Roger, damfire. Can you describe the UH
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Speaker 3: aircraft the.
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 3: Tell us Heerra Juliet Roger. How large would the would
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Speaker 3: the er object be? You can tell us Hero Juliet.
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Speaker 4: The goon.
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Speaker 3: Tell to Sierra Julia Burma the your aircraft?
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Speaker 4: Just then anywhere?
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Speaker 3: Again? Tell to Sierra Julia, is the aircraft still with you? Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yes, yours?
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Speaker 3: When you call anything, you call, tell the Serra Julia Roger,
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Speaker 3: what are your intentions?
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Speaker 4: Uh? Again, a.
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