Latest / Crime and Horror / Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... Part 5
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- 0:00Speaker 1: There is this horrifying creature that lives on a tiny,
- 0:03Speaker 1: uninhabited island in the southwestern Pacific, that lives underground, and
- 0:07Speaker 1: at night it will come out and it will eat
- 0:10Speaker 1: anything from coconuts to fish, to birds, to pigs to people.
- 0:16Speaker 1: And in today's top story, we're going to learn about
- 0:18Speaker 1: someone that accidentally wound up on this island totally stranded
- 0:22Speaker 1: and came face to face with this nightmarish creature. But
- 0:26Speaker 1: before I get into today's stories, if you're a fan
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- 0:48Speaker 1: into today's stories. Doctor Guy Garman, also known as Doc Deep,
- 1:05Speaker 1: was an avid scuba diver and in twenty fifteen he
- 1:08Speaker 1: decided he was going to put his scuba diving to
- 1:10Speaker 1: the test and try to break the world record for
- 1:13Speaker 1: the deepest recreational scuba dive. At the time, the current
- 1:16Speaker 1: record was one thousand and ninety feet, set by a
- 1:19Speaker 1: man named Ahmed Gaber in twenty fourteen. Guy's plan was
- 1:22Speaker 1: to go down to one thousand and ninety feet and
- 1:24Speaker 1: then keep going to twelve hundred feet and that would
- 1:27Speaker 1: be his record setting mark. But in order to do that,
- 1:29Speaker 1: you need a dive site that goes down to twelve
- 1:32Speaker 1: hundred feet. But luckily, Guy did most of his scuba
- 1:35Speaker 1: diving off the coast of Saint Croix in the Caribbean,
- 1:37Speaker 1: and that area was known for an incredibly deep dive spot. Now,
- 1:42Speaker 1: when most people think of scuba diving in the Caribbean,
- 1:44Speaker 1: they think of beautiful clear water and amazing coral reef
- 1:48Speaker 1: and exotic fishes, and everyone's so happy and it's so
- 1:50Speaker 1: great and the water is so warm. And off Saint Croix,
- 1:54Speaker 1: that was true. But if you've continued going offshore about
- 1:57Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty feet, you'd reach a dry off
- 2:00Speaker 1: that's known as the wall. And we're not talking about
- 2:02Speaker 1: a gradual drop off. We're talking about the seafloor going
- 2:05Speaker 1: from flat to turning forty five degrees and going straight
- 2:09Speaker 1: down two miles into a complete black abyss. Now the
- 2:14Speaker 1: only people that are actually allowed to dive into the
- 2:17Speaker 1: wall are very experienced scuba divers with all the certifications.
- 2:21Speaker 1: But if you're a tourist and you come to Saint Croix,
- 2:23Speaker 1: you can still scuba dive off the coast where it
- 2:26Speaker 1: is beautiful and shallow and warm and there's reefs and fish.
- 2:30Speaker 1: But you're allowed to swim out to the edge of
- 2:32Speaker 1: the wall. And people report getting out there and standing
- 2:35Speaker 1: on the edge of this cliff, looking in the water
- 2:37Speaker 1: with their mask and not being prepared for how intimidating
- 2:41Speaker 1: it is. I mean, you're standing on one side where
- 2:43Speaker 1: behind you is like this tropical paradise, and in front
- 2:46Speaker 1: of you is this seemingly endless void where we don't
- 2:49Speaker 1: even know what's down there. I mean, we've only explored
- 2:52Speaker 1: ten percent of the ocean. These deep portions of the
- 2:55Speaker 1: ocean we can't get down, so we don't know what's
- 2:57Speaker 1: down there. But we do know is that sometimes whales
- 3:00Speaker 1: will dive down into these deeper sections of the water,
- 3:04Speaker 1: and scientists will be tracking their dive, and when they
- 3:06Speaker 1: come up again after only going down maybe one or
- 3:08Speaker 1: two thousand feet, they'll return with these massive bites taken
- 3:12Speaker 1: out of them, because apparently there are creatures down there
- 3:16Speaker 1: that we haven't discovered yet that are so big and
- 3:18Speaker 1: so aggressive that a whale seems like a reasonable thing
- 3:22Speaker 1: to go after for food. And so imagine standing on
- 3:25Speaker 1: the edge of this cliff looking out and being like,
- 3:27Speaker 1: what's down there? Well, our boy Guy decides, I'm going
- 3:30Speaker 1: to find out what's down there, and I'm going to
- 3:32Speaker 1: do my record setting dive at the wall. And so,
- 3:34Speaker 1: after meticulous planning and hiring a support team that's going
- 3:38Speaker 1: to be there to help him do this dive, he
- 3:40Speaker 1: his wife and his son fly to Saint Croix and
- 3:42Speaker 1: they get ready to do this dive. Guy had arranged
- 3:45Speaker 1: for a line to be lowered right at the edge
- 3:47Speaker 1: of the wall that was weighted down by an anchor
- 3:50Speaker 1: that was going to go down all the way to
- 3:51Speaker 1: thirteen hundred feet, and they would put a metal placard
- 3:55Speaker 1: at the twelve hundred footmark on the actual line, so
- 3:58Speaker 1: that when Guy went down he would reach that placard
- 4:00Speaker 1: at twelve hundred feet that's the record set a mark.
- 4:03Speaker 1: He would use a grease pin to mark the placard
- 4:05Speaker 1: to indicate I made it this is legitimate, and then
- 4:08Speaker 1: he would go back up and that's how the dive
- 4:10Speaker 1: was going to go. And so in the early morning
- 4:12Speaker 1: of August fifteenth, twenty fifteen, Guy, along with his big
- 4:15Speaker 1: support team, they head out to the edge of the wall.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Guy gets into the water along with his son who's
- 4:20Speaker 1: going to go down with him for the first two
- 4:21Speaker 1: hundred feet, and he looks up at the support boat
- 4:23Speaker 1: and he gives them the okay, he's ready to start
- 4:25Speaker 1: the dive, and then he and his son give the
- 4:27Speaker 1: signal they're ready to go down, and they start their
- 4:30Speaker 1: descent into the void. As they're sinking lower and lower
- 4:33Speaker 1: and lower in the water column, it's getting darker and
- 4:36Speaker 1: darker until it's completely and totally pitch black. They reached
- 4:39Speaker 1: the two hundred foot mark, they come to a stop
- 4:41Speaker 1: as was planned, and Guy's son, Kip, would give his
- 4:44Speaker 1: father a squeeze for good luck because they can't communicate,
- 4:47Speaker 1: and then Kip would go back up and Guy on
- 4:49Speaker 1: his own continues down to the twelve hundred foot mark.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Once Guy was on his own, a timer started because
- 4:55Speaker 1: it's very important to track how long he's down at depth,
- 4:58Speaker 1: and his team was expecting him to be back up
- 5:01Speaker 1: at the three hundred and fifty foot mark in thirty
- 5:04Speaker 1: eight minutes from when his son left. But thirty eight
- 5:07Speaker 1: minutes came and went and he was not at the
- 5:09Speaker 1: three hundred and fifty foot mark. But even though this
- 5:11Speaker 1: is a big problem, Guy had a whole bunch of
- 5:13Speaker 1: extra air canisters with him and so if he ran
- 5:16Speaker 1: into any sort of problem, he would be able to
- 5:18Speaker 1: continue to breathe there and fix the problem before coming up.
- 5:22Speaker 1: It would just mean longer decompression stops along the way up,
- 5:24Speaker 1: and since he was tethered to the guideline, they knew
- 5:27Speaker 1: he couldn't drift away, and so they just had to
- 5:29Speaker 1: wait and hope that he ran into some problem and
- 5:32Speaker 1: that he would fix it eventually and then he would
- 5:34Speaker 1: come back up again. But he never did. They couldn't
- 5:36Speaker 1: really send a rescue mission down to get him because
- 5:39Speaker 1: Guy was going so deep. He was the only one
- 5:42Speaker 1: that was able to get down there. No one else
- 5:45Speaker 1: was qualified or would be able to do it, or
- 5:47Speaker 1: had the right equipment for it. He was totally on
- 5:50Speaker 1: his own down there. It would take three days before
- 5:52Speaker 1: they were able to get the right equipment that was
- 5:55Speaker 1: able to pull this lineup out of the water and
- 5:57Speaker 1: attached at the end of it was Guy and he
- 5:59Speaker 1: was just he had drowned. But the really scary thing
- 6:02Speaker 1: about what happened to Guy is when he went down
- 6:04Speaker 1: into that abyss, he had all these extra air canisters
- 6:08Speaker 1: attached to him, and so presumably he went down the line,
- 6:11Speaker 1: probably all the way down to the record breaking mark,
- 6:13Speaker 1: and then he got trapped somehow. And as he's trapped
- 6:16Speaker 1: on this line in total darkness, surrounded by who knows
- 6:20Speaker 1: what down there, probably for several hours, he just cycled
- 6:23Speaker 1: through his backup air canisters, wondering am I gonna run
- 6:26Speaker 1: out of air and drown? Or am I gonna get
- 6:28Speaker 1: attacked by some animal down here? There is this tiny
- 6:35Speaker 1: little stream that winds its way through a forest in Yorkshire, England,
- 6:39Speaker 1: called the Bolton Strid. It's not very wide, you could
- 6:41Speaker 1: jump over it. It doesn't appear to be very deep.
- 6:43Speaker 1: It looks like maybe a foot or two and it's
- 6:46Speaker 1: not moving very fast, but that's all an illusion. There
- 6:48Speaker 1: are signs up all over the place that say do
- 6:51Speaker 1: not go near the Bolton Strid. It kills people because
- 6:54Speaker 1: just beneath the surface of this seemingly Tame water Body
- 6:58Speaker 1: is a natural booby trap that has a one hundred
- 7:01Speaker 1: percent mortality rate, meaning every single person that has ever
- 7:05Speaker 1: stepped foot in the Bolton Strid has died. In nineteen
- 7:08Speaker 1: ninety eight, Barry and Lynn call It were were walking
- 7:11Speaker 1: along the Bolton Strid on their second day of their honeymoon,
- 7:14Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, a torrential downpour starts just
- 7:16Speaker 1: raining down on them, and the rocks they were on
- 7:19Speaker 1: suddenly got pretty slick, and Lynn slips and falls into
- 7:22Speaker 1: the strid. Barry, being a good husband, runs over to
- 7:26Speaker 1: try to save her, and he too falls into the strid.
- 7:29Speaker 1: A man named Desmond Thomas was on the other side
- 7:31Speaker 1: of the strid and he saw Barry as he was
- 7:33Speaker 1: running for his wife, and he saw him fall in,
- 7:36Speaker 1: and he watched Barry's face as he was looking at
- 7:38Speaker 1: him as if he was going to stay afloat at
- 7:40Speaker 1: the top. Desmond said it looked like someone came up
- 7:42Speaker 1: and grabbed his leg and yanked him under the water,
- 7:44Speaker 1: and he didn't see him again. Lynn's body was found
- 7:47Speaker 1: six days later in West Yorkshire, and Barry's body was
- 7:50Speaker 1: found over a month later, ten miles downstream. In another case,
- 7:54Speaker 1: In twenty ten, an eight year old boy named Aaron
- 7:56Speaker 1: Page was playing by the Bolton Strid for his birthday.
- 8:00Speaker 1: There's an area that's totally safe, that's away from the strid,
- 8:03Speaker 1: where people have picnics and that kind of thing. And
- 8:05Speaker 1: he came down to the edge of the strid and
- 8:07Speaker 1: was running on the rocks and he slipped and he
- 8:09Speaker 1: fell in. Now an adult saw this happen and they
- 8:11Speaker 1: ran over and they were able to grab onto him
- 8:14Speaker 1: while he's in the water, but the poll from inside
- 8:16Speaker 1: the water was so strong that this person couldn't hold
- 8:20Speaker 1: on to this child, who was eventually sucked under and
- 8:23Speaker 1: dragged away and drowned. And beyond these two reports, there's
- 8:26Speaker 1: dozens of others of people trying to jump over the
- 8:29Speaker 1: strid and falling in and drowning. So why is the
- 8:32Speaker 1: Bolton Strid so deadly? If you look at this picture,
- 8:34Speaker 1: this is of the river wharf and it's just a
- 8:36Speaker 1: little ways upstream of the Bolden Strid, and all this
- 8:39Speaker 1: water in the river wharf gets funneled into the Bolden Strid,
- 8:43Speaker 1: and the way it fits through that narrow section that
- 8:45Speaker 1: is the Bolton Strid is the river turns on its side.
- 8:49Speaker 1: So when you're looking at the Bolton Strid and you think, oh,
- 8:52Speaker 1: that's not that deep, well it is that deep. It's
- 8:54Speaker 1: at least as deep as the river wharf is wide.
- 8:58Speaker 1: And if you look at it on the surface and
- 8:59Speaker 1: you say, oh, well, Bolton Strid's not moving very fast,
- 9:01Speaker 1: well that's because underneath the surface there is a whipping current.
- 9:05Speaker 1: And in fact, the current that runs through the strid
- 9:07Speaker 1: is so strong that if you were standing on one
- 9:10Speaker 1: of the rocks overlooking the water, you're looking down into
- 9:13Speaker 1: the Bolton Strid, well you're not really standing on solid rock.
- 9:17Speaker 1: You're kind of standing on a ledge. You just don't
- 9:19Speaker 1: know it. Because the water meets the edge of the ledge.
- 9:22Speaker 1: Underneath the rock you're standing on, the water has completely
- 9:25Speaker 1: carved it out. So if you were to fall in,
- 9:27Speaker 1: before you get sucked under the water, you would get
- 9:30Speaker 1: sucked against the side and you would disappear under one
- 9:33Speaker 1: of those shelves and go way far back underneath these rocks,
- 9:37Speaker 1: and then you'd get sucked under a drown And a
- 9:39Speaker 1: lot of people who fall into the strid they don't
- 9:41Speaker 1: make it out the other side. They don't get downstream,
- 9:44Speaker 1: they get pulled into all these different caverns and tunnels
- 9:47Speaker 1: that have been carved out by that current, and they're
- 9:49Speaker 1: trapped in there forever because no one's going in to
- 9:52Speaker 1: retrieve them, not even with scuba gear, because if you
- 9:55Speaker 1: get in there with scuba gear, the current will push
- 9:57Speaker 1: you into these different caves and you aren't getting out again.
- 10:04Speaker 1: On June first, nineteen thirty seven, Amelia Earhart took off
- 10:07Speaker 1: from Oakland, California, on an eastbound flight around the world.
- 10:10Speaker 1: It was her second attempt to become the first pilot
- 10:12Speaker 1: ever to circumnavigate the globe. She along with her flight
- 10:16Speaker 1: navigator Fred Noonan, flew to Miami and then down to
- 10:19Speaker 1: South America, across the Atlantic to Africa, and then east
- 10:22Speaker 1: to India and Southeast Asia. The pair reached Ley, New
- 10:25Speaker 1: Guinea on June twenty ninth. A couple days later, on
- 10:28Speaker 1: July second, Earhart and Nonan would depart Lay and they
- 10:31Speaker 1: would make their way to tiny Howland Island, which was
- 10:34Speaker 1: their next refueling stop, but they would never arrive. What
- 10:37Speaker 1: Airhart was trying to accomplish at the time was such
- 10:40Speaker 1: a big deal, and so when they disappeared, it was
- 10:43Speaker 1: heartbreaking and it made international headlines and this huge searches
- 10:47Speaker 1: launch for them, but they can't find them, and after
- 10:49Speaker 1: two weeks they officially declared they were lost at sea
- 10:52Speaker 1: and most likely dead. Three years later, and three hundred
- 10:55Speaker 1: and fifty miles away from Howland Island, which was the
- 10:58Speaker 1: island Earhart and Nonan were trying to get to before
- 11:01Speaker 1: they vanished, a British scientist was on this tiny, little
- 11:04Speaker 1: uninhabited island called Niku Mororo and they made a startling discovery.
- 11:09Speaker 1: He found an incomplete skeleton next to what looked like
- 11:12Speaker 1: the remains of a campfire, and their skeleton was kind
- 11:15Speaker 1: of torn all over the place like they had been
- 11:17Speaker 1: ripped limb from limb. Because of Niku Mororo's proximity to
- 11:21Speaker 1: Howland Island, everybody speculated that this has got to be
- 11:24Speaker 1: the body of either Amelia Earhart or Nunan. The bones
- 11:27Speaker 1: were sent to two doctors in Fiji and they unfortunately said, no,
- 11:31Speaker 1: this isn't air Heart or Nonan, this is somebody else.
- 11:34Speaker 1: So those bones were ultimately disposed of because no one
- 11:37Speaker 1: could claim them or knew who they were, and everybody
- 11:39Speaker 1: just kind of forgot about it until twenty seventeen when
- 11:42Speaker 1: a forensic anthropologist decided to manually re examine the measurements
- 11:47Speaker 1: of the bones that were taken off of Niku Mororo
- 11:49Speaker 1: Island and compare them to real measurements of Amelia Earhart.
- 11:53Speaker 1: And they discovered that clearly those doctors in Fiji had
- 11:56Speaker 1: made a mistake, because the measurements of these bones match
- 11:59Speaker 1: Amelia Earhart almost exactly. So researchers go back to Niku
- 12:03Speaker 1: Mororo Island and they go to the area where these
- 12:06Speaker 1: bones were found, near that campfire, and they look around
- 12:09Speaker 1: and they find a couple nineteen thirties era bottles, glass bottles,
- 12:12Speaker 1: and one of them is a freckle cream. And Amelia
- 12:16Speaker 1: Earhart had lots of freckles and she liked to use
- 12:18Speaker 1: freckle cream to cover them up. She was kind of
- 12:20Speaker 1: famous for doing that. And so they found that freckle
- 12:23Speaker 1: cream on this island near bones that look like they
- 12:27Speaker 1: belong to Amelia Earhart. So, while some scientists are putting
- 12:30Speaker 1: their energy into confirming that yes, those bones were Amelia Earhart,
- 12:35Speaker 1: we don't have the bones, but we can show you
- 12:37Speaker 1: with the measurements and the freckle cream. And there's another
- 12:39Speaker 1: picture that apparently shows the landing gear of her plane
- 12:42Speaker 1: off of Niku Mororo Island. So there's some people that
- 12:45Speaker 1: are working on that angle, and there's another group of
- 12:48Speaker 1: scientists and researchers that are saying, Okay, let's assume that
- 12:51Speaker 1: that really was Amelia Earhart. Let's figure out what happened
- 12:54Speaker 1: to her once she got to Niku Mororo Island. And
- 12:57Speaker 1: the leading theory is horrifying. Although Nicu Mororo Island is
- 13:01Speaker 1: uninhabited by people, it is inhabited by one of the
- 13:05Speaker 1: scariest creatures on the planet, the coconut crab. They're three
- 13:08Speaker 1: feet long, they can carry at least six times their
- 13:11Speaker 1: body weight, and they use their pincers that are as
- 13:13Speaker 1: strong as a lion's jaw to rip open coconuts, which
- 13:17Speaker 1: is their main source of food. But coconuts are not
- 13:19Speaker 1: the only thing they eat. They'll also eat pigs, they'll
- 13:22Speaker 1: eat each other, they'll even eat themselves, and they're prolific
- 13:26Speaker 1: climbers because they need to get up to get to
- 13:28Speaker 1: the coconuts. But in some parts of the world they
- 13:31Speaker 1: use their climbing ability to climb up and grab birds
- 13:34Speaker 1: and break their wings with their pincers and then drag
- 13:37Speaker 1: them into their underground burrows where they will eat them too.
- 13:39Speaker 1: The few researchers and scientists that have gone out to
- 13:42Speaker 1: Nicu Mororo Island have said at night, thousands of these
- 13:46Speaker 1: crabs will emerge from their underground burrows and they'll go
- 13:48Speaker 1: looking for food, and they have a really keen sense
- 13:51Speaker 1: of smell, and they can smell blood. So when one
- 13:53Speaker 1: of the crabs goes up and grabs a bird and
- 13:56Speaker 1: starts ripping it apart, the thousands of others will come
- 13:59Speaker 1: charging over and swarm the bird because they've smelled the blood,
- 14:02Speaker 1: and they'll rip it to pieces, and they'll all try
- 14:04Speaker 1: to get in on the action, and so the theory goes.
- 14:07Speaker 1: Earhart and Noonan are making their way to Howland Island.
- 14:09Speaker 1: They get off tracks somehow and they wind up crash
- 14:12Speaker 1: landing three hundred and fifty miles away on Niku Mororo
- 14:15Speaker 1: Island on one of the reefs. Noonan probably dies on impact,
- 14:19Speaker 1: and Earhart, who's badly wounded and probably bleeding, she gets
- 14:22Speaker 1: onto the island and she makes her way up to
- 14:24Speaker 1: that area where that campfire was found, and for some
- 14:27Speaker 1: amount of time Earhart is able to survive off of
- 14:30Speaker 1: whatever she had on her in those glass bottles, but
- 14:33Speaker 1: in her weakened state and bleeding, at some point she
- 14:36Speaker 1: probably attracted the coconut crabs, who one night came out
- 14:40Speaker 1: and swarmed her, ripped her to pieces, and ate her. Today,
- 14:44Speaker 1: niku Mororo Island is only inhabited by the coconut crabs
- 14:47Speaker 1: and its protected land under the Republic of Kirabody, and
- 14:51Speaker 1: so if you want to go, you have to get
- 14:52Speaker 1: express permission from the Republic of Kiabody and they send
- 14:55Speaker 1: someone to go with you. And there's no airport on
- 14:58Speaker 1: the island, so you have to land on a separate
- 15:00Speaker 1: island and then ride to Nikumeroro on a boat. But
- 15:03Speaker 1: you have to pass through Cyclone Alley, which means you
- 15:05Speaker 1: can only travel there at certain parts of the year,
- 15:07Speaker 1: and even then it's incredibly dangerous. So that's going to
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