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They shouldn t have slept on Crab Island · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Around eight pm on April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy seven,
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  Speaker 1: a thirty one year old man named a Polinario Suza
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  Speaker 1: Carrea poured water on the campfire that he had built
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  Speaker 1: with his three brothers, Formino, Aleiano, and Jose on the
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  Speaker 1: beach of a small uninhabited island in northeast Brazil. The
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  Speaker 1: island was called Crab Island, and a Polinario and his
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  Speaker 1: family would take their boat there all the time because
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  Speaker 1: they would harvest lumber that they would then sell to
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  Speaker 1: local construction workers. Now, when they would go out to
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  Speaker 1: Crab Island, pretty much every single time, there was nobody
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  Speaker 1: else on this island.
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  Speaker 2: It was all theirs. But there was a specific reason
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 1: It was because most of their neighbors thought that Crab
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  Speaker 1: Island was haunted. People who visited the island would often
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  Speaker 1: report hearing these these strange voices coming from the forest,
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  Speaker 1: in particular at night, even though nobody lived on this island,
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  Speaker 1: and then sometimes people even saw lights flashing over the
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  Speaker 1: tree tops. But a Polinario and his brothers made really
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  Speaker 1: good money by going out to Crab Island. And also
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  Speaker 1: they just were not afraid of the stories people told.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they were all made up. And so today
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  Speaker 1: they had arrived at Crab Island during high tide, which
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  Speaker 1: had been at about twelve pm, and then they had
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  Speaker 1: spent the entire afternoon chopping down trees. But that didn't
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  Speaker 1: concern them because they really hadn't planned to immediately sail
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  Speaker 1: back home. They had planned to actually have dinner on
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  Speaker 1: the island after they were done working, and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: sleep for a few hours actually on their boat while
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  Speaker 1: it was out.
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  Speaker 2: On the mud.
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  Speaker 1: And then while they were sleeping for a few hours,
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  Speaker 1: the tide would come back in again, it.
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  Speaker 2: Would raise their boat up.
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  Speaker 1: They would wake up, you know, and they'd be ready
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  Speaker 1: to sail home at that point.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what they did. They had this long
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  Speaker 2: day of work.
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  Speaker 1: They had their dinner by the campfire, and then after
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  Speaker 1: a Polinario put out the fire, he and his brothers
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  Speaker 1: waded into the mud over towards their boat, which was
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  Speaker 1: literally sitting, you know, low tide.
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  Speaker 2: On the mud, and they climbed on board.
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  Speaker 1: They walked into the main cabin, they laid down their
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pads, and it didn't take.
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  Speaker 2: Long for them all to fall asleep.
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  Speaker 1: Now a Polinario and his brothers had only intended to
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  Speaker 1: sleep until about midnight. But when a Polinario woke back
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  Speaker 1: up again, although it was still dark in the cabin,
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  Speaker 1: he looked out the tiny window and he saw that
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  Speaker 1: the sky outside was already pink from the sunrise. And
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  Speaker 1: when he saw this, he groaned because he knew they
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  Speaker 1: had overslept and had missed high tide. Basically, their boat
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  Speaker 1: had gone back up and then back down into the mud,
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  Speaker 1: and now they were stuck again and would have to
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  Speaker 1: wait likely until noon to finally be able to leave,
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  Speaker 1: so it was just a nuisance. And so at this point,
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  Speaker 1: a Polinario looked over to see if his three brothers
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  Speaker 1: were still asleep, and he saw that Fermino and Jose
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  Speaker 1: were still asleep on their sleeping pads with their blankets
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  Speaker 1: pulled up over their faces. But his third brother, Alariano,
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  Speaker 1: his sleeping pad was empty and he wasn't inside the cabin.
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  Speaker 1: And so as a Polinario is realizing, you know, his
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  Speaker 1: third brother is gone, doesn't know where he is, he
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  Speaker 1: hears this just deafening screaming coming from outside on the boat,
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  Speaker 1: but not inside the main cabin, and so immediately a
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  Speaker 1: Polinario he jumps up, he runs outside and he finds
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  Speaker 1: his third brother, Ailariano, and his brother was completely covered
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  Speaker 1: in burns. A Polinario was so horrified that he just
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  Speaker 1: froze because it looked like his brother's skin had literally
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  Speaker 1: been set on fire. And then he noticed something even
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  Speaker 1: stranger about the whole thing, which was, you know, his brother,
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  Speaker 1: despite being so badly burned, his clothes didn't appear burned.
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  Speaker 1: It was like literally just his skin, like somehow his
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  Speaker 1: skin had caught fire, but nothing else on him. And
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  Speaker 1: his brother is just screaming in agony, and a Polinario
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  Speaker 1: has no idea what to do, He has no idea
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  Speaker 1: how this even happened. And while this is happening, this
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  Speaker 1: sort of shocked moment, A Polinario begins to hear moaning
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  Speaker 1: coming from back inside the cabin where he came from,
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  Speaker 1: and so, just sort of acting on instinct, he ran
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  Speaker 1: back inside the cabin. And remember his two brothers, Formino
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  Speaker 1: and Jose, their blankets were up over their heads, so.
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  Speaker 2: He hadn't seen them yet, and so he runs in.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the moaning is coming from one of them,
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  Speaker 1: and he pulls back the blankets and he sees the
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  Speaker 1: moan is coming from Formino and his skin is just
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  Speaker 1: horribly burned, like his skin is literally falling off his body.
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  Speaker 1: But just like his other brother, his clothes didn't appear
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  Speaker 1: to be burned at all. It was like just his
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  Speaker 1: skin had been set on fire, and he's moaning in
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  Speaker 1: just pure agony. And then a Polinario he looks over
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  Speaker 1: at his other brother who's also on a sleeping pad, Jose,
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  Speaker 1: and he was not burned, but he was dead now. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: because of the tides, A Polinario still had to wait
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  Speaker 1: a full six hours before he could get his brothers
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  Speaker 1: off the island, and so they waited until the tide
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  Speaker 1: came in, and then finally they took off. And then
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  Speaker 1: when they got back to land, Alariano, who was the
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  Speaker 1: one who was screaming outside the main cabin, who had
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  Speaker 1: you know, burns all over his body. He was badly hurt,
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  Speaker 1: but not maybe critically, so he stayed behind with Jose's body,
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  Speaker 1: and a Polinario wound up taking Fermino to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: because his injuries looked like they could be critical. When
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  Speaker 1: when they finally got to the hospital, for Mino was
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  Speaker 1: like barely conscious, like his injuries were really taking a
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  Speaker 1: toll on him.
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  Speaker 2: It was like his body was shutting down.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as he was checked in, the doctors
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  Speaker 1: asked him, like, hey, just tell us how you got
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  Speaker 1: these burns. Give us some indication of how this happened,
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  Speaker 1: And right before Formino slipped into a coma from his burns,
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  Speaker 1: he was able to tell them that when he and
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  Speaker 1: his brothers were still out at Crab Island, he had
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  Speaker 1: looked out the window from inside the cabin of his
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  Speaker 1: boat when they were all sleeping in the boat and
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  Speaker 1: outside there was this inexplicable ball of fire hovering in the.
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  Speaker 2: Air, and that's all he remembered. He had no idea
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  Speaker 2: how he actually got burned.
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  Speaker 1: So the police opened an investigation into whatever happened that
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  Speaker 1: night at Crab Island, and they would come up with
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  Speaker 1: several theories that, you know, maybe could explain it, including
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  Speaker 1: that maybe the men had simply injured each other and
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  Speaker 1: were just sort of lying about it.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they had taken drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Or were under the influence of something and you know,
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  Speaker 1: while being that way, they could have hurt themselves or
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  Speaker 1: each other, or just something could have happened that they
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  Speaker 1: didn't remember. Or another theory was maybe lightning struck the
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  Speaker 1: beach and somehow reflected off the sand and bolts of
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  Speaker 1: lightning made their way out into the boat and you know,
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  Speaker 1: burned two and killed one. But the reality was is
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  Speaker 1: these theories there was no evidence to support any of them.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, the big takeaway from this investigation is basically
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  Speaker 1: that when they went out to that island they found nothing.
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  Speaker 1: There was just no evidence whatsoever. Ultimately, the two injured
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  Speaker 1: surviving brothers, Formino and Oleriano, they would make full recoveries,
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  Speaker 1: but neither of them ever, could remember any meaningful details
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  Speaker 1: of what happened, and so eventually the case was closed
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  Speaker 1: without really any answers. But strange stories continued to come
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  Speaker 1: from Crab Island. People continued to hear voices and see
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  Speaker 1: strange lights, and then finally, in April of nineteen eighty six,
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  Speaker 1: so nine years after the death of Jose, a different
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  Speaker 1: crew of four men traveled out to Crab Island to
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  Speaker 1: harvest timber, and at some point they all recalled hearing
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  Speaker 1: this loud, crashing sound out in the woods, and then
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  Speaker 1: they all just fell unconscious, and when they woke up again,
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  Speaker 1: it was eighteen hours later. One of them was dead
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  Speaker 1: and another one was inexplicably covered and burns, And just
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  Speaker 1: like the brothers nine years earlier, the survivors of this
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  Speaker 1: the night of June twelfth, nineteen ninety three, sixty nine
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  Speaker 1: year old Dieke Slayton climbed into bed in his home
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  Speaker 1: in League City. Texts and even this small action, you know,
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  Speaker 1: getting in bed took a lot of effort for Deeke
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  Speaker 1: because he was very, very sick.
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  Speaker 2: So Deeke had a brain tumor.
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  Speaker 1: He'd actually been diagnosed the year before, but had then
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  Speaker 1: quickly gone into remission, so he thought he'd beaten it,
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  Speaker 1: but it had unfortunately come back a few months later,
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  Speaker 1: and this time it was much worse. Deeke knew eventually
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  Speaker 1: this thing was going to kill him, and unfortunately, probably
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  Speaker 1: sooner than later. His wife and daughter had been taking
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  Speaker 1: care of him as he got weaker and sicker, and
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  Speaker 1: while he certainly appreciated it, the reality was, is it
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  Speaker 1: really bothered him. I mean, he was a tough guy
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  Speaker 1: and he was used to being the person who took
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  Speaker 1: care of other people, not the other way around. But
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  Speaker 1: more than that, the worst part of him getting sick
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  Speaker 1: was he hadn't been able to fly a plane in months.
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  Speaker 1: So Deeke was like a legend in the aviation community.
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  Speaker 1: As a young man, he'd been in the Air Force,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd flown in World War II combat missions, some
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  Speaker 1: of the most harrowing aerial combat in recorded history, and
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  Speaker 1: Deeke had loved being up high and looking down at
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  Speaker 1: the world from his cockpit so much that after the
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  Speaker 1: war was over, he'd gone one step further to space.
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  Speaker 1: And he had not just become a regular astronaut. He'd
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  Speaker 1: been on NASA's first team of astronauts to literally ever
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  Speaker 1: go to space. And then after he had gotten too
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  Speaker 1: old for space trips, he continued to work for NASA
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  Speaker 1: in various capacities until his retirement ten years ago. But
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  Speaker 1: retiring had not meant he just stopped, you know, aerial
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  Speaker 1: travel completely. I mean he was done flying into space,
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  Speaker 1: but he still flew planes. In fact, he was a
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  Speaker 1: hugely successful amateur air racer, which is a competitive sport
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  Speaker 1: where aircraft raced one another through basically an aerial obstacle course.
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  Speaker 1: And so now as Deeke's life was sort of slipping
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  Speaker 1: through his fingers, all he found himself wanting to do
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  Speaker 1: was just go fly. He had this plane called a Stinger,
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  Speaker 1: which he used for racing. It was this red small
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  Speaker 1: plane that was super loud, pretty unique, but he loved
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  Speaker 1: this plane and he just constantly fantasized about getting back
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  Speaker 1: in the cockpit and going for a ride. However, Deeke
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  Speaker 1: did know that because of his tumor, you know, realistically,
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  Speaker 1: him flying a plane would not be safe. His speech
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  Speaker 1: was shaky and he was tired all the time, also,
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  Speaker 1: like his balance and decision making were affected. And then
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  Speaker 1: on top of the physical limitations from his tumor, also
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  Speaker 1: there was the reality that his stingerplane was currently in storage.
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  Speaker 1: But as Deeke laid in bed that night feeling just
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  Speaker 1: physically awful and you know, literally feeling his life sort
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  Speaker 1: of slipping away, you know, all he wanted was just
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  Speaker 1: one more time to fly, and it just became so
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  Speaker 1: overpowering that desire to fly again that he decided while
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  Speaker 1: he was laying there that tomorrow, first thing in the morning,
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  Speaker 1: whether I am sick or not, I'm getting up, I
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  Speaker 1: am taking my Stinger out of storage.
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  Speaker 2: And I AM going for a ride.
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  Speaker 1: Early the next morning, at the John Wayne Airport in
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  Speaker 1: southern California, which was over fifteen hundred miles away from
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  Speaker 1: where Deeke lived, an airport manager stepped into his office
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  Speaker 1: ready to start a shift. He worked for the airport's
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  Speaker 1: noise abatement department, which was responsible for making sure that
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  Speaker 1: the planes that flew in and out didn't make too
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  Speaker 1: much noise and drive the neighbors crazy. And usually this
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  Speaker 1: early in the morning things were pretty calm and uneventful,
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  Speaker 1: but today As soon as the manager got into his office,
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  Speaker 1: he heard his desk phone ring, and when he answered it,
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  Speaker 1: the person on the other end said they were a
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  Speaker 1: local resident and they wanted to make a complaint. There
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  Speaker 1: had just been a plane flying low over her house
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  Speaker 1: making a ton of noise. The manager immediately looked over
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  Speaker 1: at the clock and saw it was just before eight am,
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  Speaker 1: which meant that the plane that this resident was complaining
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  Speaker 1: about was in violation of the airport's curfew. John Wayne
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  Speaker 1: Airport had a policy where they didn't let any planes
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  Speaker 1: take off before eight am on Sundays, specifically to avoid
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  Speaker 1: this to avoid bothering the locals too early. And so
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  Speaker 1: on the phone, this you know, perturbed resident gave a
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  Speaker 1: description of the aircraft, which was a small red racing Stinger,
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  Speaker 1: and so the manager took some notes, hung up, and
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  Speaker 1: was about to you know, start making some phone calls
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  Speaker 1: when their phone rang again and it was another resident
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  Speaker 1: with basically the exact same complaint. And then after that
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  Speaker 1: this manager got more and more calls all about this
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  Speaker 1: red plane, and all the people who were complaining basically
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  Speaker 1: said they had heard it, they had seen it. It
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  Speaker 1: was like doing these crazy aerial maneuvers, but now it
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  Speaker 1: was gone, so they were calling sort of after the
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  Speaker 1: fact it's gone now, but it was really really disruptive.
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  Speaker 1: Some of the callers actually said that at certain points
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  Speaker 1: this plane, when they saw it had flown so low,
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  Speaker 1: they were able to read its identification number and they
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  Speaker 1: had written it down to report it, and so they
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  Speaker 1: told the manager that it was N twenty one x.
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  Speaker 2: That was the number on this plane.
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  Speaker 1: And so at some point when the manager had a chance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in between all these calls they were getting,
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  Speaker 1: they looked up on their computer to see who this
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  Speaker 1: plane was registered to, you know, using that number N
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  Speaker 1: twenty one x. And when they saw whose plane this was,
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  Speaker 1: the manager was shocked. This was Deeke Slayton's plane. The
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  Speaker 1: manager knew Deeke, I mean, everybody did, and it was
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  Speaker 1: very surprising to him that somebody like Deeke, who was
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  Speaker 1: a consummate professional, would be flying around so recklessly outside
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  Speaker 1: of curfew.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So on his computer, the manager pulled up the morning's
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  Speaker 1: readings from the airport's noise monitors, and when the manager
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  Speaker 1: saw the readings, he could see very clearly that at
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  Speaker 1: least three monitors had gone way up at the same
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  Speaker 1: time the residents all said they saw Deeke's plane, and
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  Speaker 1: so at this point the manager knew that because of
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  Speaker 1: these noise recordings, which corroborated the reports, that he would
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  Speaker 1: have to send, you know, the legend himself Deek a
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  Speaker 1: formal note about doing this. I mean, he was basically
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  Speaker 1: going to have to reprimand Deeke. However, based on all
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  Speaker 1: the reports and also on those monitors which measured the
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  Speaker 1: noise in the area, it seemed apparent that Deeke, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever he was doing, he was done doing it now
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  Speaker 1: because he was out of the airspace, and so, you know,
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  Speaker 1: this manager would have to reprimand him, but there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a huge urgency, but he would have to do it eventually.
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  Speaker 1: So the manager printed out the noise recordings, put them
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  Speaker 1: on his stack of things to do, and then just
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  Speaker 1: went about his day. Fifteen days later, that manager finally
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  Speaker 1: got around to actually sending that warning to Deeke. And
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  Speaker 1: when Deeke's wife got that letter and read its contents,
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  Speaker 1: she was so confused because what this airport was claiming
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  Speaker 1: Deeke did was literally impossible. It would turn out there
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  Speaker 1: was literally no way Deeke Slayton could have been flying
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  Speaker 1: his Stinger over the California skies on that day because
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  Speaker 1: the storage location that was holding Deeke's plane was actually
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  Speaker 1: a museum in Nevada.
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  Speaker 2: He'd given the.
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  Speaker 1: Stinger to them three years ago and it hadn't moved since.
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  Speaker 1: And just to make it clear here, they had removed
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  Speaker 1: the engine from the Stinger and then hung the Stinger
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  Speaker 1: from the rafters in this museum, like this thing is
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  Speaker 1: not flable, at least not quickly. But more than the
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  Speaker 1: logistics of how quickly could he get the plane out
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  Speaker 1: of the museum, put the engine back in and make
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  Speaker 1: it fly ready beyond that, that's a huge problem.
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  Speaker 2: But the other, far bigger reason that it.
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  Speaker 1: Was truly impossible that Deek was the one flying that plane,
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  Speaker 1: even though clearly it was his plane the tail number
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  Speaker 1: set as much. The reason it couldn't have been him
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  Speaker 1: is because five full hours before that recorded flight, Deeke
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  Speaker 1: had passed.
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  Speaker 2: Away in his sleep.
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  Speaker 1: No one has ever been able to explain how Deeke's
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  Speaker 1: red Stinger plane ended up over the skies of California
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  Speaker 1: that morning.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: And today that warning letter that the manager from the
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  Speaker 1: John Wayne Airport sent to Deeke that ultimately his wife
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  Speaker 1: god and was so confused by that letter actually sits
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  Speaker 1: on display at the Deeke Slayton Memorial Space Museum. One
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  Speaker 1: morning in June of nineteen seventy two, a hospital administrator
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  Speaker 1: named Harold Michaels ran down the hallway of the Alameda
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  Speaker 1: Hospital in California. He was totally out of breath, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was going as fast as he could, and as
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  Speaker 1: he turned the corner, he nearly knocked over a gurney,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't even stop to apologize to the person.
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  Speaker 2: Who was pushing it.
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  Speaker 1: He just kept on running as fast as he could
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  Speaker 1: until he got to the cafeteria where all the nurses
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  Speaker 1: and doctors were eating before they started their morning shift.
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  Speaker 1: And as soon as he got in there, like totally
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  Speaker 1: out of breath, he just yelled out to everybody to hey,
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  Speaker 1: pay attention, I have a very important announcement. And so immediately,
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  Speaker 1: like the room goes silent. All the staff they turned
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  Speaker 1: to look to see what's going on here, and all
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  Speaker 1: he said was the hospital needs to update its disaster plan.
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  Speaker 1: But as Harold for a second to catch his breath
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  Speaker 1: and let this information sort of be soaked in by
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  Speaker 1: the audience. He looked around and he saw pretty much
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  Speaker 1: everybody was looking back at him with just looks of
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  Speaker 1: total confusion on their face. And Harold definitely understood why
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  Speaker 1: they might react that way, because there really was no
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  Speaker 1: clear reason for Harold to be suddenly barging in here
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  Speaker 1: and demanding they update this plan. Like there hadn't been
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  Speaker 1: any recent mass casualty events or you know, natural disasters
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  Speaker 1: or anything. This was just like a normal day at
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, but here Harold was acting like there was
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  Speaker 1: some disaster at hand, and so there was this moment
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  Speaker 1: of like, wait, are you serious, Like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But before anybody could really ask any questions, he just said, look,
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure we are capable of handling
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  Speaker 1: like a mass casualty event, an emergency, like we need
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  Speaker 1: to have a better plan in place in case something
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  Speaker 1: really terrible happens.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to be caught flat footed.
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  Speaker 1: And so again there was like a sort of pause,
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's still looking back at Harold, like what's prompting this,
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  Speaker 1: And at some point before anybody moved, somebody raised their
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: hand and they were like why, but Harold, he was
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  Speaker 1: like not having it. He just said, stop, stop everything
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  Speaker 1: you're doing, like, put your breakfast away. I don't care
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  Speaker 1: what you think about this, right now, go update the
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  Speaker 1: disaster plan. Eight months later, on the morning of February seventh,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy three, Harold sat around a conference table with
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  Speaker 1: the members of the hospital's disaster committee. They'd been holding
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  Speaker 1: meetings every month since the previous summer to update their
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  Speaker 1: emergency procedures, and just two days ago, at an all
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  Speaker 1: staff meeting, they had unveiled the new disaster plan that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: Harold had frantically demanded, and so every doctor and nurse
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  Speaker 1: and clerk at the hospital had been briefed on the
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  Speaker 1: new procedures, and there was a drill scheduled for the
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  Speaker 1: very next.
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  Speaker 2: Morning to practice what to do.
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  Speaker 1: And Harold should have felt calmer knowing that they were
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  Speaker 1: now you know, officially prepared, at least more so than
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: they had been before he demanded the update. But when
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  Speaker 1: the meeting wrapped, all Harold could focus on was the
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: sort of nameless feeling of dread in the pit of
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  Speaker 1: his stomach. But after work that day, he still drove home.
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  Speaker 1: He ate dinner and sat on his couch and tried
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  Speaker 1: to relax, but he just couldn't. Fast forward to about
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty that night, and Harold was running out of
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  Speaker 1: his house, leaping in his car, and driving as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could back to the hospital. He had just
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  Speaker 1: gotten a phone call from the hospital saying that he
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  Speaker 1: had to come.
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  Speaker 2: Back here right away.
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  Speaker 1: And when he got to the hospital he saw there
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: was a line of police officers directing traffic, and there
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: were EMTs and firefighters rushing bleeding patients into the building
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: on stretchers. I mean, it was madness. When Harold made
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  Speaker 1: it inside, the er was bustling with nurses rolling gurneys
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  Speaker 1: down the halls and prepping extra beds and carrying these
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: big boxes of blood packs from the local blood bank.
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  Speaker 1: Harold counted at least six full surgical teams standing around,
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  Speaker 1: scrubbed and ready to go, before any patients had even arrived.
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  Speaker 1: And then at this point a nurse grabbed Harold and
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  Speaker 1: told him that the hospital's phone lines had gone down
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  Speaker 1: about thirty minutes ago, but more than one hundred off
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  Speaker 1: duty doctors and staff members had shown up immediately when
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  Speaker 1: they heard the news, without even waiting to be officially
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: called in, and when they got to the hospital, they
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  Speaker 1: went straight to their stations and knew exactly what to
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: do because they'd all been preparing for that big disaster
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: drill in the morning. And so as Harold is standing
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: here sort of processing the scene, he watched as EMTs
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  Speaker 1: wheeled in a man with third degree burns all over
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: his body, and right away a team of doctors swooped
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  Speaker 1: in and guided him into a trauma room, and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the doctors all waited in an orderly line
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  Speaker 1: to take over the next patients as soon as they
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: came through the doors. And Harold couldn't help but feel
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: really vindicated and also a little spooked because this was
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: all happening exactly as he knew it would it would
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: turn out out on that morning, you know, months earlier,
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  Speaker 1: when Harold bolted into the cafeteria and told everybody to
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  Speaker 1: stop what they were doing and update the disaster plan. Well,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: that morning, Harold had woken up from this incredibly lucid,
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: vivid dream, perhaps the most vivid dream he had had in.
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  Speaker 2: His whole life.
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  Speaker 1: In this dream, a plane had crashed into the middle
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: of the city, leaving hundreds of people dead and horribly injured,
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  Speaker 1: and it was basically up to his hospital to save people.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: And so that was why he'd been so insistent.
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  Speaker 1: That morning on updating the emergency plan, because he felt like,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: if that really happened like in the dream, if there
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: was a plane crash, I don't know if we have
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  Speaker 1: the capacity to handle it like that many patients all
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  Speaker 1: at once, I don't know if we can do that,
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  Speaker 1: And so we better update things right now.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And so fast.
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  Speaker 1: Forward eight months to February seventh, nineteen seventy three. Literally
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: just hours before Harold's hospital was going to conduct a
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  Speaker 1: drill to practice the new disaster plan they'd come up with,
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  Speaker 1: a navy jet had smashed into a four story apartment
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: building in the middle of the city. But because of
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Harold's dream, which ultimately prompted him to force his hospital
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  Speaker 1: to update their disaster plan. Because of that, well, when
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: this actual plane crash happened, Harold's.
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  Speaker 2: Hospital and his whole staff were ready.
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  Speaker 1: Initial estimates at the crash scene had predicted at least
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: fifty people would die, but thanks to Harold's staff and
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  Speaker 1: their updated disaster plan, only eleven people actually did. Thank
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: you so much for watching, let me know what you
• 24:45
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• 24:48
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• 24:51
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• 24:54
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• 24:55
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• 24:58
  Speaker 2: a watch.
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  Speaker 1: Alright, until next time, see ya,