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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to share three stories that demonstrate that, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell them in reverse order, so it'll go
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  Speaker 1: three two one, getting weirder and more bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: And also, these stories are of the more spooky variety too,
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  Speaker 1: so stranger than fiction and kind of spooky. But before
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. At around five pm on
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  Speaker 1: August twenty ninth, nineteen fifty four, a fifty three year
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  Speaker 1: old woman named Juliette x Line had just sat down
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  Speaker 1: on her couch with a book inside of her home
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  Speaker 1: in Los Angeles when she got this weird wave of
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  Speaker 1: anxiety that kind of rushed over her. Now, there was
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  Speaker 1: nothing she could think of that would cause her to
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  Speaker 1: feel this way, and she even looked around her house, thinking,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there was something weird going on, but
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing. And so finally, Juliette, you know, she
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  Speaker 1: put her book down and just took a few calmon
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  Speaker 1: breadths to kind of go back to normal.
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  Speaker 2: Like, she didn't know what was going on, but she
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  Speaker 2: could tell she was super anxious.
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  Speaker 1: Now, generally speaking, Juliette was a very mellow person. She
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  Speaker 1: was not prone to anxiety attacks like this, and so
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  Speaker 1: that kind of caught her off guard. And the only
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  Speaker 1: thing she could think of that was different than normal
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  Speaker 1: was her husband, Larry was on a much needed vacation,
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  Speaker 1: and so the last couple of days while he'd been
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  Speaker 1: gone had been maybe more lonely in the house, and
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  Speaker 1: so maybe that was causing her to feel this weird stress.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't know, but she told herself, you know, Larry's
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  Speaker 1: vacation was definitely a good thing. Larry was an exterminator
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  Speaker 1: and over the past two years he had not taken
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  Speaker 1: a single day off. He was a total workaholic, and
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  Speaker 1: so when Larry began to talk about wanting to take
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  Speaker 1: a break, Juliet had encouraged him to put in time
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  Speaker 1: for some vacation time, you know, put in a request,
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  Speaker 1: and Frank had actually done that, and as soon as
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  Speaker 1: his boss had approved a two week long vacation, Larry
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  Speaker 1: had been so.
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  Speaker 2: Pumped he had called his friend and.
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  Speaker 1: They had immediately scheduled a fishing trip, and four days
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  Speaker 1: before Frank and his friend had driven off to enjoy
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  Speaker 1: his time off.
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  Speaker 2: And so as Juliet thought.
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  Speaker 1: About that, she told herself that, you know what, even
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  Speaker 1: if she was feeling a little bit anxious about Larry
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  Speaker 1: being gone, it really was a good thing for Larry,
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  Speaker 1: and it would improve not only his life, but her
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  Speaker 1: life as well. This was overall a good thing, and
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  Speaker 1: so she just needed to kind of deal with this
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  Speaker 1: anxiety that maybe or maybe not was connected to Larry.
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  Speaker 1: She didn't know, But for the rest of that evening,
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  Speaker 1: Juliet just could not get rid of this kind of baseline,
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  Speaker 1: low level nervousness.
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  Speaker 2: She was feeling.
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  Speaker 1: And so at some point she began getting up and
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  Speaker 1: walking around her house and confirming all the windows were
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  Speaker 1: shut and locked and the doors were locked. She was
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  Speaker 1: drawing curtains, you know, checking in closets, making sure everything.
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  Speaker 2: Was totally safe.
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  Speaker 1: And then by eight pm, when she still just could
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  Speaker 1: not shake this anxiety, she decided she just needed to
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  Speaker 1: go to bed and kind of sleep this off. But
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  Speaker 1: after falling asleep, Juliette suddenly woke up at ten point
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  Speaker 1: fifteen pm, drenched in sweat with the most intense anxiety
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  Speaker 1: she had ever felt in her life.
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  Speaker 2: And she was totally disoriented. She's looking around a room,
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  Speaker 2: like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: And then she heard a voice. It was Larry's voice,
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  Speaker 1: except he sounded funny. He sounded like quiet, as if
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  Speaker 1: maybe he was outside the house trying to come in,
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  Speaker 1: and he was calling to her, and so kind of
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  Speaker 1: in a panic, she jumped out of bed, ran into
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, and right in the hallway was Larry. He
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  Speaker 1: wasn't outside, he was right there, except something was wrong
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  Speaker 1: with Larry. He was kind of hunched over and grabbing
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  Speaker 1: his stomach and he was he had his hand on
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  Speaker 1: the wall, and he also appeared to be soaking wet,
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  Speaker 1: and so juliet had no idea what was going on.
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  Speaker 2: But between all.
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  Speaker 1: That anxiety and now seeing Larry here in this weird state,
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  Speaker 1: she couldn't help herself.
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  Speaker 2: She just ran towards him to just make sure he
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  Speaker 2: was okay.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as she got about a foot away
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  Speaker 1: from him, he held out his hand and said, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't touch me.
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  Speaker 2: I have to go back.
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  Speaker 1: And what he said was so disorienting that Juliet just
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  Speaker 1: stopped and stared at her husband, like what is this?
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  Speaker 1: And that's when she made the startling realization that Larry
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  Speaker 1: was not soaking wet with water.
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  Speaker 2: He was soaking wet with blood.
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  Speaker 1: And he was clutching his stomach like something was bleeding
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  Speaker 1: in his midsection. And the reason he had sounded so
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  Speaker 1: quiet when he had called out to her and woken
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  Speaker 1: her up was because he was clearly hurt. And so
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  Speaker 1: Juliette has no clue what's going on, Like her husband
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be seven hours away on.
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  Speaker 2: This fishing trip, and so how is he here?
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  Speaker 1: It didn't make any sense, and so, really, not knowing
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  Speaker 1: what else to do, Juliet just said, I'm gonna call
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  Speaker 1: the doctor, and so she ran past Larry headed to
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  Speaker 1: the kitchen and she was about to grab the phone
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  Speaker 1: on the wall, but before she could grab it.
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  Speaker 2: The phone began to ring, and so Juliet just answered
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  Speaker 2: it and.
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  Speaker 1: Said hello, Hello, And what she heard was the sound
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  Speaker 1: of a sheriff in Eli, Nevada, and he said, excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: is this missus X line Juliet X line? And she said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: What's happened?
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  Speaker 1: And the sheriff said, ma'am, I'm sorry to tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: but I have some terrible news. Your husband got into
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  Speaker 1: a car accident and unfortunately he has passed away. And
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  Speaker 1: now the second the sheriff said this to Juliet, she
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  Speaker 1: just froze and goes, no, that's not possible.
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  Speaker 2: He's here with me right now.
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  Speaker 1: And Juliet turned around and looked into the hallway where
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  Speaker 1: Larry had been standing, and now Larry was gone. Larry
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  Speaker 1: really had died in that car accident, because Juliet would
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  Speaker 1: bury her husband that week. But Juliet maintained that clearly
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  Speaker 1: after her husband had died, his spirit had somehow survived
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  Speaker 1: the accident, because when she saw her husband standing in
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  Speaker 1: the hallway, you know, hunched over and covered in blood.
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  Speaker 1: It was at ten fifteen pm, she remembers, because when
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  Speaker 1: she woke up, she saw the time. It was ten
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  Speaker 1: fifteen and her husband had died at exactly ten fifteen PM,
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  Speaker 1: the exact moment she saw him in the hallway. Juliette
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  Speaker 1: would ltimately write an account of what she experienced with
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  Speaker 1: her husband. However, from that day forward, she never once
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  Speaker 1: saw her husband again.
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  Speaker 2: That was the only time.
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  Speaker 1: At twelve thirty pm on March seventh, twenty fifteen, a
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  Speaker 1: police officer named Tyler Bedows, along with his partner, were
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  Speaker 1: driving in his police cruiser near the Spanish Fork River
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  Speaker 1: in Utah, when suddenly a police dispatcher came on over
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  Speaker 1: the radio, and this dispatcher was speaking very urgently and said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: a fisherman has just called in to say that he
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  Speaker 1: spotted what looks like in upturned suv partially submerged in
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  Speaker 1: the Spanish Fork River right underneath the bridge, and whoever
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  Speaker 1: is closest to this bridge get over there and see
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  Speaker 1: if there's anybody inside the vehicle that can be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And so Officer Bedos and his partner they knew they
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  Speaker 1: were very near this bridge, and so immediately they banged
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  Speaker 1: a U turn. They drove to the bridge, but from
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  Speaker 1: the road they looked down and couldn't see any suv,
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  Speaker 1: but they saw there was some firefighters and paramedics that
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  Speaker 1: were also converging at the spot on the road, and
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  Speaker 1: everybody's getting out and running down to the river bank,
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  Speaker 1: and so Bedos and his partner did the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: They got out and they ran down and then finally
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  Speaker 1: when they got to the river bank and they saw
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  Speaker 1: underneath this bridge, sure enough there was this red suv upturned,
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  Speaker 1: partially submerged. And he noticed right away that none of
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  Speaker 1: the doors had been opened in this suv, and so
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  Speaker 1: it meant whoever was driving this vehicle when it flipped over.
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  Speaker 2: Very likely was still inside.
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  Speaker 1: And so Officer Bedos and his partner and the other
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  Speaker 1: first responders just jumped into this icy cold river and
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  Speaker 1: began making their way closer and closer to this upturned suv,
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  Speaker 1: which again it's not fully submerged. It's like a third
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  Speaker 1: of the way underwater. So if you were sitting in
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  Speaker 1: the seat inside of this vehicle and you were an adult,
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  Speaker 1: your head would basically be in the water if you
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  Speaker 1: were still strapped into the seat. And as they're making
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  Speaker 1: their way towards this suv, when they got close enough,
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  Speaker 1: they began hearing a woman inside of the vehicle, screaming, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're in here, come over here, help. But when Officer
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  Speaker 1: Bedos and the rest of the first responders actually reached
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  Speaker 1: the suv, the water was so murky and it basically
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  Speaker 1: completely covered up the windows that they weren't really able
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  Speaker 1: to look into the vehicle. They could just hear this
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  Speaker 1: woman yelling, but that was it. And then when they
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  Speaker 1: tried to open up the doors, they couldn't do it
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  Speaker 1: because the roof had begun to cave in, and so
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  Speaker 1: the actual.
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  Speaker 2: Framing of the door wouldn't open.
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  Speaker 1: And so all these first responders, it's like there are
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  Speaker 1: adrenalines pumping, and they're like, come on, we got to
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  Speaker 1: push this thing up onto.
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  Speaker 2: Its side so we can get in.
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  Speaker 1: And so all these first responders are pushing and pushing,
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  Speaker 1: and slowly but surely they began to raise the side
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  Speaker 1: of this vehicle up until the windows suddenly were clear,
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  Speaker 1: and Officer Beddos and the others were able to look
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  Speaker 1: into the car, and they saw there was a woman
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  Speaker 1: in the driver's seat, and there was a baby in
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  Speaker 1: a car seat dangling upside down in the back seat,
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  Speaker 1: still strapped in, and so Bedos began screaming, there's a
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  Speaker 1: baby in here, there's a baby in here. And suddenly
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  Speaker 1: it was like everybody got extra strength, and they pushed
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  Speaker 1: this vehicle.
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  Speaker 2: All the way up onto its side.
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  Speaker 1: And then one of the firefighters climbed up onto the
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  Speaker 1: side of the car, which now was the highest point
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  Speaker 1: of the car, and he reached in and he clipped
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  Speaker 1: these straps holding the baby who had been upside down
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  Speaker 1: dangling there, cut the straps and pulled the baby out
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  Speaker 1: and handed the baby over to Officer Bedos, and then
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  Speaker 1: the firefighter began doing the same thing to get the
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  Speaker 1: woman out. But Officer Bedos at this point, he just
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  Speaker 1: took this baby. He turned away. He figured the first
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  Speaker 1: responders will handle this woman, and he's going to take
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  Speaker 1: this baby to safety because he couldn't even tell if
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  Speaker 1: the baby was alive or not.
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  Speaker 2: And so he's tradling this baby.
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  Speaker 1: He's rushing back through the water back to the river bank,
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  Speaker 1: and then he hands the baby over to the paramedics,
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  Speaker 1: and right as he does, he sees this little baby
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  Speaker 1: begins to move its arms and flicker its eyes, and
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  Speaker 1: he wanted to weep out of relief that this child
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  Speaker 1: was okay.
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  Speaker 2: They put the baby onto a stretcher.
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  Speaker 1: They put the baby in the ambulance and they whisked
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  Speaker 1: the baby away to the hospital where this baby would survive.
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  Speaker 1: But after the baby had been taken away, Officer Beddos
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  Speaker 1: turned his attention back to the suv and back to
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  Speaker 1: the woman to see how she was doing. But he
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  Speaker 1: could tell right away from the way people were acting.
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  Speaker 1: All the other first responders that were still dealing with
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  Speaker 1: the crisis in the water. The way they were acting
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  Speaker 1: indicated that something is off here. Well, it would turn
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  Speaker 1: out fourteen hours earlier. So at around ten pm the
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  Speaker 1: previous night, a twenty five year old woman named Jennifer
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  Speaker 1: Grossbeck had just left her father's house in Salem, Utah,
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  Speaker 1: and in her car was her little eighteen month old baby, Lily,
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  Speaker 1: who was in the back seat. And after Jennifer pulled
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  Speaker 1: away from her father's house and her father's on the
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  Speaker 1: porch waving to her, she began driving.
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  Speaker 2: Towards her home.
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  Speaker 1: But something happened around ten thirty pm that night. We
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  Speaker 1: don't know what, but something caused Jennifer to careene off
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  Speaker 1: the road on that bridge and flip over and land
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  Speaker 1: in the water. Maybe she fell asleep at the wheel
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  Speaker 1: or an animal jumped out, we don't know, but we
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  Speaker 1: know at ten thirty she kreens off the bridge and
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  Speaker 1: she lands in that river. And then for fourteen hours,
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  Speaker 1: she and her baby remained upside down in that river
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  Speaker 1: until finally Officer Bedos and the other first responders came
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  Speaker 1: rushing over to open it up and get them out
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  Speaker 1: of there. And if you recall all the first responders,
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  Speaker 1: Officer Bettos included, heard Jennifer screaming that they were in
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  Speaker 1: the car, Come save us, please, But what they would
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  Speaker 1: find out is that could not have been Jennifer, because
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  Speaker 1: Jennifer was killed on impact when the car fell into
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  Speaker 1: the water. Only Lily survived the crash. And then Lily,
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  Speaker 1: who's nearly hypothermica, she's upside down with water like two
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  Speaker 1: inches away from her head for fourteen hours she dangled there,
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  Speaker 1: and when she was pulled out, according to doctors, was
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  Speaker 1: like a couple of minutes before she would have died
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  Speaker 1: from hypothermia. And so without that voice, Lily almost certainly
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  Speaker 1: would have died. Because it was the sound of that
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  Speaker 1: voice that really encouraged all these first responders to find
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  Speaker 1: the strength and get that car up on its side.
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  Speaker 2: And then get the baby out of there.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know whose voice that belonged to, but for
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  Speaker 1: sure it saved Lily's life and again baby Lily would
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  Speaker 1: make a full recovery. And to this day, Officer Bettos
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  Speaker 1: and the other first responders they know what they heard
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  Speaker 1: and they do not have an explanation for it.
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  Speaker 1: At around nine pm on October twenty sixth, two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine, a nineteen year old college student named Miako
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  Speaker 1: Hiroka bagged up the last bit of trash inside of
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  Speaker 1: the ice cream parlor where she worked, and she dumped
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  Speaker 1: It was closing time, and so Miako looked around the
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  Speaker 1: inside of the parlor, made sure everything was where it
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  Speaker 1: was supposed to be, and then she flipped off the lights,
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  Speaker 1: threw a purse over her shoulder, she grabbed that bag
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  Speaker 1: of trash. She headed outside the parlor. She shut and
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  Speaker 1: locked the door. She dumped the trash in a nearby bin,
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  Speaker 1: and then began walking towards the exit of the mall,
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  Speaker 1: which is where this parlor was located.
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  Speaker 2: It was inside of this big mall.
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  Speaker 1: Miyako went to school in a city called Hamada City,
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  Speaker 1: which is located on the coast of Japan in an
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  Speaker 1: area called the Shimane Prefecture, and Hamada City was a
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  Speaker 1: totally beautiful and very remote location with these amazing beaches
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  Speaker 1: and unbelievable mountains, with all these ski resorts on it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this was an incredible place to live. But
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  Speaker 1: as much as Miako did love living there, she was
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  Speaker 1: next year because she was doing an exchange program. She'd
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  Speaker 1: be studying in Russia, and that was so exciting for her.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, this exchange program was the reason why
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  Speaker 1: Miako had picked up this job at this ice cream parlor,
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  Speaker 1: because she came from a family that was not poor
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  Speaker 1: by any means, but they didn't have a lot of
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  Speaker 1: extra income, and Miyako felt strongly that she really wanted
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  Speaker 1: reached the exit of this mall and she stepped outside
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  Speaker 1: into the night, and then she had a decision she
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  Speaker 1: needed to make, and she needed to make this decision
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  Speaker 1: every night after work.
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  Speaker 2: There were two ways.
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  Speaker 1: That she could get back to her doorm, which was
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  Speaker 1: located about a mile away. The quick way would be
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  Speaker 1: to just hop on a bus and have the bus
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  Speaker 1: taker to redorm, but that cost money, and remember Miyako
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  Speaker 1: is trying to save up as much money as she
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  Speaker 1: can to pay for Russia next year, and so taking
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: the bus just felt like, you know, not really worth it.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: And the other option, which was free, was much longer
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: and frankly just playing spooky, and Miako hated it.
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: What it entailed was basically.
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: Just walking to her dorm, but it would mean walking
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: for about a third of a mile through this really
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: spooky forest that looked like it was straight out of
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: a horror movie. Now, up until recently, Miako's co worker
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: had always left with her at the same time, and
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: they lived roughly in the same area, and so they
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: would walk together through that forest, you know, saving money
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: and also you know, providing each other's security as they
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: went through the spooky area. But recently the co worker
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: had quit and so now Miyako was all alone. And
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: so as Miako stood there wondering what she should do,
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: you know, take the bus route, or take the forest
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: route she just thought about. You know, next year, it's
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: all gonna be worth it. I'm going to go to Russia.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna pay my way. It's going to be awesome.
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: And after all, what's the worst that can happen. It's
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: just a few minutes walking through a forest I've done
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: dozens of times before long, I'll be in my brightly lit,
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: safe dorm room, studying away, and everything will be fine.
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: And so Miyako turned and began walking towards the forest.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: The following day, a little past four pm, the owner
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: of the ice cream shop where Miako worked was standing
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: inside the parlor feeling really annoyed because Miaco had not
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: shown up for her shift, and now the owner, who
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: normally did a lot of administrative and managerial things, was
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: stuck at the counter serving all the customers, basically doing
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Miako's job. But when five pm came and still Miaco
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: had not shown up, and the owner had tried calling
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: her and she didn't pick up, and there was just
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: no sign of her, the owner went from being annoyed
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to being somewhat worried, and so, after again not being
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: able to call Miako to figure out what was going on.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: He wound up going through her file and finding her
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: mother's phone number and he called her. And when he
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: spoke to Miako's mother, he knew right away there was
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: something wrong because Miako's mother actually was pretty panicked and
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: she said, you know what, last night, when Miaka was
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: coming home from work, she told me she would call
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: me when she got to her dorm. But I never
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: heard from her, and I haven't been able to get
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: in touch with her since. And so after this conversation ended,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Miako's mother would call the police and report her daughter missing,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: and pretty much instantly, the police in Hamada City responded
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: in force. I mean they launched a huge investigation to
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: go figure out what happened to Miako. And really the
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: reason behind that is because Hamada City is this unbelievable place,
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: this secluded, safe place where things like this did not happen,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: and frankly, it scared everybody and they wanted to deal
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: with it as quickly as possible. And so what police
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: did at first is they went and looked at security
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: footage from the ice cream parlor where they knew she
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: had been working on the night she went missing, and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: sure enough, at about nine to sixteen pm. There's footage
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: of her walking out of the ice cream parlor in
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: the mall. She's got a purse over her shoulder, and
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: you know, she shuts and locks the door, she throws
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: the trash away, and then she heads towards the exit.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: But after that, nobody saw her. There was no more footage,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: there was no more tips or anything. She just vanished
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: once she left the mall. And so very quickly this
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: story gained lots of attention because again, Hamada City is like.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: This quintessential vacation spot. It's so perfect, it's so safe.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: And to have this girl just go missing, it was scandalous,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and so it made the news all over Hamada City.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: And also people who lived in Hamada City were suddenly
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: on edge at night, you know what's out there snatching
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: people up. In fact, Miyako's college during the few days
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: following her disappearance, they set a curfew for all their students,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: like all their students had to be back in their
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: dorms at a certain time to keep them safe. But again,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: despite the police really leaning into this case from the
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: jump and putting all their manpower and all their resources
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: into this, they really had no idea what happened to Miako. Then,
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: on November sixth, two thousand and nine, so eleven days
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: after Miako went missing, a man who was hunting for
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: mushrooms up on this mountain side, about fifteen miles away
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: from the ice cream parlor, believed he spotted this beautiful
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: mushroom sitting underneath a few fallen leaves, and so excited,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: the guy runs over and he begins moving away the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: leaves to grab this big, meaty mushroom. But as soon
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: as he grabbed the skin of this mushroom and began
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: to pull, he stopped. And then he quickly turned and
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: began sprinting back down the path that had brought him
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: up here. And as he was running, he pulled his
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: phone out and he saw he had no service, and
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: he just kept on running and holding the phone up
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: looking for service. And then finally, when he was about
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: halfway down the mountain, he saw he had service in
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: his phone, and he called the police, and the second
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the dispatcher answered, this man began screaming, I found a
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: human head. When police arrived on that mountain side where
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: this man claimed to have found a human head, while
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: they confirmed he was right. They found Miaco's severed head
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: right underneath those leaves. And the reason this s guy
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: thought her head was a mushroom, a dark colored mushroom,
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: because it was obvious that Miako's face had been so
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: badly beaten and it was all black and blue before
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: she lost her head, and so this mushroom hunter had
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: literally thought that was a big, big mushroom. And so
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: at this point, the Hamadacity police shifted their area of
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: search from around the mall and the ice cream parlor
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: where they thought they would find Miaco to this forested
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: mountain area where her head was found. And now, of
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: course it was no longer a search and rescue, it
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: was a recovery mission. They're just looking for the rest
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: of Miaco's body. And over the next couple of days,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: as police searched this forested mountain side, they would find
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: different parts of Miaco all over the place. And then
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: after they had found, you know, all the pieces to Miaco,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the running theory based on what they were seeing is
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: that very likely she had been strangled to death and
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: then her body was burned, and then she was dismembered
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and scattered throughout this forested mountain area, but there was
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: very little evidence about who had actually done this to Miaco.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Miaco had no enemies to speak of. Everybody who spoke
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: about Miako said she was incredibly lovely and kind and
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: really there wasn't anybody in her life that would want
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: to do her harm. And also, because Miaco's body had
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: been destroyed and left out for so long, any trace
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: evidence left behind by her killer or killers was basically
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: non existent, and so the police really had no leads
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to speak of. They had no suspects or anything, and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: so they called in psychologists to try to make you
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: a profile of who they thought might have done this,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: And the best theory anyone could come up with was
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that this had been a random crime of opportunity, that
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the person who killed her didn't know her, and that
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: likely her killer was a man who was likely between
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: the ages of twenty and forty. But even that information
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: really didn't narrow anything down, and so quickly this case
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: began to go cold. But as the police investigation itself
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: began to go cold, the kind of lore around the
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: story was only growing. I mean, this really seemed like
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: a totally unbelievable case considering where it happened, I mean,
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Hamada City is like this perfect place, how could this
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: happen here? And so what started as being kind of
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a local news story, albeit a big local news story,
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: became a major national story all over Japan. And so
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: all these TV outlets and journalists were descending on Hamada City,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: and they were taking video of the ice cream parlor
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: and of the police department and filming you know, Miako's
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: dorm and her school and her parents' house. I mean,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: there were people all over the place trying to get
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: any bit of information to report on about this case.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: And despite there being dozens and dozens of these live
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: reports basically every day coming out of Hamada City about
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: this case and about Miako, there was one particular news
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: report that took this case from being you know, totally
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: unfortunate and sad and tragic and horrible too, completely unbelievable
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: and bizarre. Shortly after Miako's remains had basically all been found,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: but they were still doing some recovery operations up on
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: that mountain side, one of these kind of random TV
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: reporters who was in Hamada City to report on this
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: crazy case, decided to set up their TV camera, so
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: it was pointing towards the dark entrance of that spooky
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: forest that Miyaka would walk through to get back to Redorm.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: And so this TV news reporters got their microphone and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: you know, they're standing with the forest entrance right behind them,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: and the cameraman's filming, you know, looking towards this opening
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: of the forest. And the actual report was pretty generic.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, this reporter was basically saying, well, coming at
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: July from Hamada City, just outside of the forest where
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: perhaps Miako was killed, and it was just like that.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It was just kind of talking about the case and
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: there was nothing to it, at least not to the
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: TV reporter and the cameraman who were on site, because
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: for them, the entire report was pretty routine. They did
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: their job, they got their shot, they got their report,
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: and then they left. But they streamed it live, so
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: while they were doing it, all these people are tuned
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: in watching this news report live in front of this forest,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: and something really unsettling happened on this broadcast. While that
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: news reporter was talking, another voice began to be heard
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: by people watching this broadcast, and it was not the cameraman,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: and it was certainly not the TV journalist. It was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a woman's voice, and there was no woman anywhere near
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the shot. And after the fact, the journalist and the
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: cameraman would also attest that there was nobody around.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: It was just them. But this detached, very pained.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: Voice said very clearly, and all these people heard it live,
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: this is very painful.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Why only me?
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: And so after this news report happened, this story, this
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: case about Miyako, went from being just a Japanese story
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: to being like an international sensation because everybody believed when
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: they saw this video that that voice that was heard
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: was Miyako's ghost basically talking on camera. That's why you
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: can't see her. It's her spirit communicating with the living world. However,
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: despite that drawing even more attention to this case, it
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: didn't remotely help the police actually solve the case. They
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: still had no idea who did this, and that's how
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: this case would stay for years, just totally stalled. That
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: is until seven years later, when a police officer was
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: conducting a routine police review of old criminal case files
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: that hadn't been solved, you know, going through the mall
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: to see if maybe evidence had been missed and maybe
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that was why the case had not been solved. And
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: so this police office starts looking through all these case
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: files and when they landed on the Miyako case, they
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: did discover a piece of evidence.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: That had been totally overlooked.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: It was the file of a convicted sex offender named
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Yoshiharu Yano. Yoshiharu was a thirty three year old man
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: who had served time in prison for assaults on three
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: different women in Tokyo, which is five hundred miles away
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: from Yamada City where Miyako was killed. And because of
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: that five hundred mile gap between Tokyo and Tamada City,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: Yoshiharu had been completely overlooked in terms of being a
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: suspect in Miako's murder. It just seemed like he was
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: too far away to be involved. But the police officer
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: who was doing that routine review, they discovered that right
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: before Miyako was murdered, this Yoshiharu guy had been let
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: out of prison and decided to live in Hamada City.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: And on the night Miako was killed, when she decided
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: to walk into that forest, well, they found security footage
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: of Yoshiharu's car driving along around that forest and up
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: near that mountain where Miako's remains were all discovered. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: so this investigator who discovered this piece of information got
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: permission from higher ups to search Yoshiharu's home where he
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: was living right then, and when they searched his home,
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: they discovered a digital camera with forty photos on it
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: that would explain what happened to Miako. It was very
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: clear Yoshiharu had murdered Miyako because some of the pictures
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: contained photos of Miyako and they are just horrible. But
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: figuring out who Miako's killer.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Was was not the end of this case.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: In fact, it wasn't even the most shocking part of
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: this case. The most shocking part of this case is
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: what happened to Miako's killer, Yoshiharu, basically right after she
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: was murdered. And that voice, that detached female voice was
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: heard on that TV news report seven years earlier, right
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: around the time that Miako's head had been found, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: also after that voice had been heard on the TV newscast,
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: some people who were driving in a car north of
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Hamada City began calling the police reports something very strange.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: They called the police and said, there is this small
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: white Toyota Corolla car that has two people inside of it,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: and they've driven to the side of the road, and
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: the driver is ramming over and over again against the railing,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: like they're smashing into the railing, backing up, smashing over
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: and over again, like the car is somehow in control.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: They don't understand how these people are not getting out.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Of the car, like what are they doing? Traffic had
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: stopped on either side.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: It was just totally nonsensical. And then by the time
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: the police showed up this car that was just repeatedly
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: driving into the side of this guardrail, it burst into
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: flames with the two people inside still clearly alive and
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: looking terrified, and they caught on fire and died.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Now, at the time, this did make the news.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: It looked very much like some sort of weird murder
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: suicide where the driver had intentionally, you know, driven the
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: car until it burst into flames and killed themselves and
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: also their passenger. But it didn't really amount to more
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: than just a really weird news story because there.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Was no connection to the Miyako case. This is like
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: a totally isolated thing.
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: However, seven years later, when that police officer discovered the
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: link that Yoshiharu was in Hamada City and then they
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: figured out yep, Yoshiharu was the killer.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Well, suddenly that totally weird murder.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Suicide took on a whole new meaning because the driver
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: of that car was Yoshiharu and the passenger was his mother.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: And again from eyewitness testimony, it didn't really make sense
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the way this all happened. It was almost like the
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: car was possessed or something that, you know, the passengers
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: couldn't control it. Now, who knows if that's true. But
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: when you combine it with the sound of that female
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: voice on the TV news camera that everybody assumed was
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: Miyako's ghost saying this is so painful, Why only me,
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Suddenly those words took on a new meaning. People thought,
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: you know what it is. Miyako's ghost must have taken
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: control of that car and made sure not only Yoshiharu
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: suffered and died, but his family member died as well.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: That she was seeking her revenge on her killer as promised.
• 29:06
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• 29:11
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• 29:15
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• 29:25
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• 29:29
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• 29:33
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• 29:36
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• 29:40
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• 29:44
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• 29:47
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