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Speaker 1: At six thirty pm on May fourteenth, nineteen fifty five,
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Speaker 1: a twenty four year old man named Donald Drew stood
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Speaker 1: next to his friend, twenty eight year old Marie Anderson,
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Speaker 1: on the shore of a natural spring in the state
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Speaker 1: of Georgia. The spring was called Radium Springs because literally
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Speaker 1: there was radium in the water. Radium is a naturally occurring,
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Speaker 1: highly radioactive metallic element, but there were such low levels
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Speaker 1: of it in the water that it wasn't really a hazard. However,
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Speaker 1: the radium did have an effect on the water. It
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Speaker 1: made it practically neon blue, and so it was totally mesmerizing.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you look at this thing, and you know
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Speaker 1: there's something different.
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Speaker 2: About the spring. Also, this spring was incredibly deep.
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Speaker 1: So Donald and Murray were both members of the US Navy,
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Speaker 1: and so naturally they spent a lot of time, you know,
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Speaker 1: in and around water, because that's what the Navy does,
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Speaker 1: they work in and around water. But ironically, it was
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Speaker 1: actually when Donald and Murray were not working that they
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Speaker 1: spent the most amount of time in the water because
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Speaker 1: in their off time they were recreational scuba divers. Except
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Speaker 1: back in nineteen fifty five, recreational scuba diving was totally
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Speaker 1: not safe. And that was because, you know, underwater diving
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Speaker 1: certainly existed at the time.
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Speaker 2: I mean institutions like the.
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Speaker 1: Navy, they were prolific divers, but civilians did not really
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Speaker 1: dive on their own. And so as a result, if
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Speaker 1: you wanted to recreationally scuba dive, well you didn't really
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Speaker 1: have access to good equipment or even proper equipment. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there just wasn't anything available to you. And so for
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Speaker 1: people like Donald and Murray who did want to go
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Speaker 1: explore the underwater abyss On their own. They had to
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Speaker 1: literally make their own diving equipment, like their own oxygen
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Speaker 1: tanks and their own flashlights and goggles, I mean all
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Speaker 1: of it. I mean it was amateur. It was homemade equipment,
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Speaker 1: and so that's what made it really dangerous. On top
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Speaker 1: of when you're underwater diving, as I've done myself, a
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Speaker 1: lot of things can go wrong, and so that's also dangerous,
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Speaker 1: and so the whole thing, you know, it's asking for problems.
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Speaker 1: But for Donald and Murray, it was actually the danger
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Speaker 1: associated with recreational diving that made it so appealing. They
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Speaker 1: liked the idea that other people were scared to go underwater,
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Speaker 1: you know, with their diy equipment.
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Speaker 2: You know. For Donald and Murray, they loved it.
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Speaker 1: They got a thrill out of it, and on top
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Speaker 1: of that, they kind of felt like explorers. They got
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Speaker 1: to go to places underwater where literally nobody else had
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Speaker 1: gone before. In fact, they had already gone to other
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Speaker 1: locations and mapped out you know, tunnels and underwater cave
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Speaker 1: systems and all these different things that literally nobody else
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Speaker 1: had done before, and they loved it. And today was
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Speaker 1: going to be no different because there were sections in
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Speaker 1: radium springs that nobody had mapped, and they were going
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Speaker 1: to go down there and see it for themselves. So
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Speaker 1: after the two men looked at each other and nodded
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Speaker 1: and just kind of gave the signal it was time
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Speaker 1: to begin to dive. They donned their amateur equipment, you know,
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Speaker 1: their oxygen tanks and their goggles and their flippers, and
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Speaker 1: then they walked into the neon blue water and submerged.
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Speaker 1: A few minutes later, Donald and Murray had traveled about
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Speaker 1: seventy feet straight down the water column and at this point,
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Speaker 1: you know, the light is really fading.
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Speaker 2: They can't really see too well.
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Speaker 1: They did have flashlights that they had rigged up that
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Speaker 1: they had water prooved, but at this point, down seventy feet,
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Speaker 1: it's getting pretty dark. But right in front of them,
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Speaker 1: off to the side was this huge entrance, this underwater
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Speaker 1: tunnel entrance, and this was actually a well known cavern
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Speaker 1: like this is actually where other recreational divers would go
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Speaker 1: to if they went to Radium Springs.
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Speaker 2: It was this cavern.
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Speaker 1: But while the entrance to the cavern had been sort
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Speaker 1: of mapped out and searched, there were all these little
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Speaker 1: spidery offshoots. Once you got into this cavern that had
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Speaker 1: not been explored. And so what Donald and Murray were
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Speaker 1: going to do is go into the cavern and then
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Speaker 1: basically start you know, splintering off and seeing what.
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Speaker 2: Else was in there and mapping it out.
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Speaker 1: Now, as much as Donald and Murray did like the
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Speaker 1: sort of risks associated with this activity, they weren't completely reckless.
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Speaker 1: They had attached a dive line when they had gone
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Speaker 1: into the spring that they attached to the surface and
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Speaker 1: they fed down with them. It's a two hundred foot
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Speaker 1: line and they carried it with them. The lead diver
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Speaker 1: would basically unspool as they went. The two divers would
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Speaker 1: be right next to each other and they'd be holding
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Speaker 1: onto this line. And so when they would go into
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Speaker 1: this cavern, if for some reason they got turned around
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Speaker 1: or you know, they got you know, totally confused, whatever
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Speaker 1: it was, they could always just follow their line back
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Speaker 1: out of the cavern, back up to the surface. This
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Speaker 1: was not like rocket science. This is something that divers
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Speaker 1: today still do. So using a dive line very common practice,
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Speaker 1: and Donald and Murray were doing just that. And so
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Speaker 1: they went into this cavern, they got their dive lines
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Speaker 1: spooling out and everything is totally fine.
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Speaker 2: But once they were.
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Speaker 1: Inside of this cavern, all the light completely went away.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the cavern was relatively spacious, but you know,
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Speaker 1: the light is coming straight down and this tunnel entrance
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Speaker 1: is basically, you know, horizontal, and so once they're inside
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Speaker 1: of this cavern, it's utterly pitch black.
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Speaker 2: But Donald and.
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Speaker 1: Murray have dove other underwater cave systems. They knew going
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Speaker 1: in how dark this cave system was going to be.
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Speaker 1: They had their flashlights, you know that they had jerry
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Speaker 1: rigged to be waterproof, and they're holding onto their line
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Speaker 1: and they're going into this cavern looking for their first offshoot.
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Speaker 1: But as they're going into this cavern, there's all this silt,
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Speaker 1: all this mud that's kind of caked to the walls
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Speaker 1: and the floor that began getting kicked up from their
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Speaker 1: flippers and bumping into it. And before long, because of
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Speaker 1: the silt and the lack of light, they could basically
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Speaker 1: only see maybe six inches in front of them. Like
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Speaker 1: even shining their light, all they'd see is all the silt,
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Speaker 1: and so very quickly the visibility basically fell to zero.
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Speaker 1: But you know, again they're going in knowing this is
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Speaker 1: the environment. They're going into. They're confident, they're cool, they're
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Speaker 1: moving along. But as the two divers were continuing through
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Speaker 1: the cavern, you know, getting deeper and deeper, and it's
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Speaker 1: starting to get more and more restrictive, you know, the
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Speaker 1: deeper they go. They were about to go into this
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Speaker 1: offshoot when Donald suddenly started seeing all these air bubbles
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Speaker 1: coming up against them. And now he can't quite see
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Speaker 1: where they're coming from. But there's only one place that
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Speaker 1: an air bubble could be emerging from, and that's from
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Speaker 1: his oxygen tank. And so clearly there's some sort of
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Speaker 1: issue he can't see because it's so dark. He also
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Speaker 1: had as homemade equipment, and so the risk of catastrophic
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Speaker 1: failure is pretty high with his equipment. And so he
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Speaker 1: begins trying to figure out where this leak is coming from,
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Speaker 1: you know, checking his equipment, trying to make it stop.
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Speaker 2: But he can't.
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Speaker 1: He can't really communicate to Walter, who's got the spool
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Speaker 1: of diveline, who's continuing straightforward into this offshoot. He can't
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Speaker 1: quite tell him what's going on. They can't actually speak
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Speaker 1: to each other.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: It's pitch black, there's silt, it's sort of you know,
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Speaker 1: claustrophobic and stressful, and so ultimately Donald grabs Murray and
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Speaker 1: just tries to shake him and sort of signal, hey,
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Speaker 1: I got an issue here. But he had no way
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Speaker 1: of knowing if Murray actually understood. But Donald, he knew
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Speaker 1: he just had to get out of there. He had
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Speaker 1: to go back to the surface and fix his issue
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Speaker 1: before it got way worse. And so even though he
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Speaker 1: knew he was kind of leaving his body here, he's thinking, Okay,
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Speaker 1: you know, Murray's got the dive line, he's experienced.
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Speaker 2: I just grabbed him. Everything's going to be okay.
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Speaker 1: And Donald turned around, you know, kicked up more silt
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Speaker 1: and held onto that dive lige but now followed it
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Speaker 1: back out of the cavern and back up to the surface.
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Speaker 1: And when he got to the surface, he took a
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Speaker 1: big breath.
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Speaker 2: He was saved. You know.
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Speaker 1: He checked his equipment and realized, you know, wherever the
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Speaker 1: issue was, and he was actually able to fix the issue.
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Speaker 1: And so before long, after only being on the surface
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Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes, he had put his equipment
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Speaker 1: back on. He was back in the water and following
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Speaker 1: the dive line back down towards the cavern. As Donald
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Speaker 1: began his descent down towards that cavern, seventy feet down,
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Speaker 1: the whole time, he's holding onto the divelne, you know,
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Speaker 1: making sure he doesn't lose that. But really what he's
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Speaker 1: focused on is checking his equipment because as he's going down,
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Speaker 1: he's got basic visibility here. You know, it's not going
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Speaker 1: to be like in the cavern where you can't see anything.
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Speaker 1: And so as he's going down, he's checking his equipment
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Speaker 1: and just making sure that there isn't a leak. And
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Speaker 1: by the time he got all the way down seventy
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Speaker 1: feet and the dive line turned and went into that cavern,
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Speaker 1: Donald was feeling pretty good that his equipment was good,
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Speaker 1: it was not malfunctioning, and it was safe to go
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Speaker 1: back into the cavern with Murray.
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Speaker 2: And so that's what he does.
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Speaker 1: He's got his flashlight in one hand, he's got the
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Speaker 1: dive line in the other, and he's now looking straight
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Speaker 1: into this dark opening of this cavern and in Donald
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Speaker 1: goes the whole time holding onto that divelne, and pretty
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Speaker 1: much immediately once inside the cavern, the flashlight became useless
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Speaker 1: because again the silt's still kicked up. There's no current
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Speaker 1: running through this cavern, so the silt is not going anywhere.
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Speaker 2: But either way, you.
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Speaker 1: Know, Donald knew what he was doing. He was going
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Speaker 1: straight in there to connect with Murray, then continue this
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Speaker 1: dive and see what else is in here, and you know,
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Speaker 1: map it out for other divers, and so into the
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Speaker 1: cavern he goes. He's holding the dive line in one hand,
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Speaker 1: he's got his flashlight, and he's.
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Speaker 2: Going deeper and deeper into this cavern.
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Speaker 1: And the whole time he's expecting at any moment he's
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Speaker 1: just going to bump into Murray. But he just keeps
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Speaker 1: going and going deeper and deeper into the system. The
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Speaker 1: walls are getting tighter and tighter around him, and eventually
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Speaker 1: he reaches the very end of the dive line two
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Speaker 1: hundred feet at this point, deep into this cavern, and
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Speaker 1: there's no Murray. Murray's gone now Donald, He's looking around. Remember,
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Speaker 1: it's total darkness. All he's got is this flashlight, which
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Speaker 1: basically just illuminates the silt that's been kicked up all
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Speaker 1: around him. But where he is at this exact moment,
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Speaker 1: the silt wasn't too bad. It was just like this
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Speaker 1: abyss all around him. It's totally black, there's nothing around him,
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Speaker 1: and in a sudden panic, Donald thinks, oh my goodness,
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Speaker 1: I'm so far into this cavern.
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Speaker 2: I haven't found Murray. Like something's happened to him.
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Speaker 1: He's run out of air or he's gotten lost, Like
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Speaker 1: how could he have let go of the dive line.
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Speaker 2: What's going on here?
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Speaker 1: And so Donald immediately just starts going down to the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the cave and searching the ground, thinking that,
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Speaker 1: you know, maybe Murray got to this point and passed
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Speaker 1: out and sunk to the bottom. But he gets to
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Speaker 1: the bottom of the cave, there's nothing there. He starts
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Speaker 1: feeling the tunnels. There's nothing. And at this point he's
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Speaker 1: kicked up even more silt and so like he really
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Speaker 1: can't see anything.
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Speaker 2: And he's thinking, it took me.
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Speaker 1: A while to get in here, and I'm running low
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Speaker 1: on oxygen right now, Like I need to get help
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Speaker 1: immediately because Murray he's gonna run out of time really
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Speaker 1: quickly here. And so Donald he turns around and holding
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Speaker 1: onto this divelne, he pulls himself out of the cavern.
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Speaker 2: He goes back to the surface.
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Speaker 1: You know, some part of him was hoping that when
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Speaker 1: he got up there, that he would just magically see
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Speaker 1: Murray waiting for him.
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Speaker 2: But nope, he's all alone. There's nobody here.
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Speaker 1: And at that point Donald took off his gear any
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Speaker 1: contacted authorities. Not long after that, two commercial divers along
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Speaker 1: with an entire US Navy dive team arrived at Radium
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Speaker 1: Springs and began looking for Murray. And they searched and
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Speaker 1: they searched, and they couldn't find him until eight am
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Speaker 1: the next morning, twelve hours after Donald had surfaced. It
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Speaker 1: would turn out when Donald had that malfunction that caused
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Speaker 1: him to leave the cavern and leave Murray behind and
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Speaker 1: go to the surface and fix himself and then go
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Speaker 1: back down again. Well, in that space of time that
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Speaker 1: he was away from Murray, Murray continued to spool out
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Speaker 1: the diveline, maybe not necessarily knowing that Donald had left
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Speaker 1: him at this point, and Murray got all the way
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Speaker 1: to the end of the day line two hundred feet
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Speaker 1: and at that point in this uncharted tunnel he was in.
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Speaker 1: Somehow or another, Murray became disconnected from the divelne.
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Speaker 2: Maybe he let go of it, maybe he bumped into something.
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Speaker 1: We don't know, but either way, he let go of
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Speaker 1: the divelne, basically right at the end of the Divelne.
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Speaker 1: And when Donald came back down and got to the
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Speaker 1: end of that divelne and discovered Murray wasn't there, well,
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Speaker 1: what he didn't know is that Murray actually was just
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Speaker 1: a couple of feet away. He was basically right above him,
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Speaker 1: because that's where Murray was ultimately found. He had drowned
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Speaker 1: literally feet away from the Divelne, but Donald he couldn't
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Speaker 1: see him, and in a total panic state. In an
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Speaker 1: effort to find Murray, Donald began fumbling around, going down
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Speaker 1: and rubbing up against the bottom and the walls, kicking
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Speaker 1: up all this silt. And you got to figure, at
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Speaker 1: this exact moment, Murray, who's very much alive at this point,
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Speaker 1: almost certainly is right above him. And now his visibility,
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Speaker 1: which was already terrible, he's probably scared to death because
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Speaker 1: he's looking for this divelne and now the silt is
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Speaker 1: just getting kicked up all around him. He probably knows
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Speaker 1: Donald's nearby. He's swimming around looking for Donald, Donald's looking
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Speaker 1: for Murray. They swim right past each other. It's absolute madness.
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Speaker 1: But then Eventually, Donald just vanishes because he's going to
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Speaker 1: find help, and Murray is left all by himself in
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Speaker 1: total darkness, disoriented, terrified, has no idea where the dive
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Speaker 1: line is. Silt is making it impossible to know what
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Speaker 1: direction is even going, and so in Murray's final moments,
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Speaker 1: he just scrambled around trying to find his way out again,
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Speaker 1: until he eventually drowned again, just feet away from his diveline,
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Speaker 1: the very thing that would have brought him to safety.
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Speaker 1: On May twenty eighth, twenty twenty two, a photographer named
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Speaker 1: April Vertucci, along with two of her friends, snuck toward
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Speaker 1: words this abandoned funeral home in Flint, Michigan. The funeral
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Speaker 1: home was a big brick building right off a main
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Speaker 1: road in the center of the city, and April and
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Speaker 1: her two friends knew there were lots of people that
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Speaker 1: were kind of looking in this direction and it was
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Speaker 1: illegal to go into this property, and so very carefully
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Speaker 1: they snuck their way towards the back door of the
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Speaker 1: building and they saw the door was completely attached to
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Speaker 1: its hinges. It was in good shape, appeared to be locked,
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Speaker 1: but they thought, you know, what the heck. They walked
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Speaker 1: up to the door, took a look around. April reached down,
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Speaker 1: tried the handle, and it pulled right open. And as
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Speaker 1: soon as this happened, April was psyched because not only
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Speaker 1: was she a photographer, but she was also an urban explorer,
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Speaker 1: which meant she would sneak into places like this, abandoned
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Speaker 1: buildings and other man made sites just to have a
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Speaker 1: look around one because it was fun and exciting, but
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Speaker 1: also because she got to use her photography taking cool
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Speaker 1: pictures of places like this funeral home. And so April's
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Speaker 1: friends were also into urban exploring, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: this door came open, it was like, oh my goodness,
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Speaker 1: I can't leave.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to explore this legendary site.
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Speaker 1: So this funeral home had been shut down about five
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Speaker 1: years earlier because of reports of unsanitary conditions inside. Anonymous
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Speaker 1: reporters had gone in and discovered that there were literally
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Speaker 1: like human remains out. There were up to forty bodies
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Speaker 1: being stored in one room with no air conditioning, so
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Speaker 1: they're just rotting. There's maggots all over the place, there's
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Speaker 1: some bombing liquids on the ground, there's blood everywhere. I mean,
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Speaker 1: basically this place was like the site of a horror movie.
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Speaker 1: And so the state comes in, they shut this place down,
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Speaker 1: and the owner, after being shut down, just abandons the building,
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Speaker 1: just leaves it.
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Speaker 2: Exactly the way they had left it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the bodies were removed by the state, but
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Speaker 1: all the equipment for the funeral home was just left behind.
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Speaker 1: Everything was sealed up and that was that, and the
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Speaker 1: place was deemed off limits. But naturally, urban explorers found
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Speaker 1: out about this and began going in to see this
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Speaker 1: horror show for themselves. And so April and our friends
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Speaker 1: they had heard about this place and immediately were like,
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Speaker 1: we we got to go in there. We got to
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Speaker 1: see it for ourselves. And so they hopped in a
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Speaker 1: car and they drove over three hours from Ohio to
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Speaker 1: Michigan just to check this place out. And now here
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Speaker 1: they were, door open, and in they go. Once the
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Speaker 1: door shut behind them, April and her two friends were
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Speaker 1: looking down this long, dark hallway and it's totally silent inside.
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Speaker 1: The walls were made out of cinderblock that have been
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Speaker 1: painted white, but the paint was all chipping off, and
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Speaker 1: they had their flashlights out, and it's just it's dark
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Speaker 1: and creepy, and they're looking down the hallway and just
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Speaker 1: for a second they just stop and listen to see
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Speaker 1: if anybody else is inside of here moving around, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe other urban explorers or even other animals or anything squatters,
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Speaker 1: they don't know. But they're sitting there for a second
17:41
Speaker 1: just listening, and they don't hear anything. And so with
17:44
Speaker 1: April in front, they begin walking down this hallway and
17:47
Speaker 1: as they're walking, there's all this trash on the ground.
17:50
Speaker 1: It's totally eerie. As they're walking, you know, every little
17:53
Speaker 1: sound is sort of startling them.
17:54
Speaker 2: They're kind of laughing as they're going.
17:56
Speaker 1: And eventually April stops in front of this first door
17:59
Speaker 1: that she sees, the first door off the hallway, and
18:01
Speaker 1: it's closed, and right across the center of this door
18:04
Speaker 1: is this big caution sign saying, you know, stay back,
18:08
Speaker 1: and then underneath the caution sign it says formaldehyde. And
18:12
Speaker 1: so April and our friends knew that, okay, well, formaldehyde
18:15
Speaker 1: is a chemical used to embomb bodies, something funeral homes did,
18:19
Speaker 1: and so they know that behind this door very likely
18:22
Speaker 1: was the embombing room where funeral homes would literally pump
18:26
Speaker 1: dead bodies full of formaldehyde and prep the bodies, you know,
18:30
Speaker 1: to be presented at the wake, you know, before they're
18:32
Speaker 1: actually laid to rest. You know, it's like this is
18:34
Speaker 1: where actual dead bodies are manipulated and so April and
18:38
Speaker 1: our friends are pretty excited, and so April's you know,
18:40
Speaker 1: she opens up the door and they look inside of
18:43
Speaker 1: this room and it's very eerie. It's pretty much vacant.
18:46
Speaker 1: But in the center of this room it's all dark.
18:48
Speaker 1: They have their flashlights. Right in the center of the
18:51
Speaker 1: room is this metal table, the standalone metal table. It's
18:54
Speaker 1: like a gurney and it's where the dead body would
18:56
Speaker 1: be placed as they're being embombed. And then on the
18:59
Speaker 1: wall all around or all these shelves with various tools
19:03
Speaker 1: and you know, vials of various milky liquids. There's a saw,
19:07
Speaker 1: there's scissors, there's scalpels on the ground, there's you know,
19:10
Speaker 1: fabric that appears to have some sort of bodily fluids
19:13
Speaker 1: on it. I mean, this really looks like the scene
19:15
Speaker 1: of a horror movie. But for April and her friends,
19:18
Speaker 1: it's like this is a gold mine. I mean, this
19:20
Speaker 1: is what we came here for. And so April and
19:22
Speaker 1: her friends for the next little bit, they just began
19:25
Speaker 1: walking all around the embombing room, you know, April taking
19:27
Speaker 1: photos and her friends and April kind of moving things around,
19:30
Speaker 1: seeing what was in there. And then Eventually, you know,
19:33
Speaker 1: they left and they continued to search the building, and
19:36
Speaker 1: they found a chapel where there were caskets laying around.
19:39
Speaker 1: They also went into a garage and they found there
19:41
Speaker 1: was an old hearse just left inside the garage. I mean,
19:45
Speaker 1: the place really was as creepy as everybody said it was.
19:48
Speaker 1: And so it was sometime around discovering the garage that
19:51
Speaker 1: the girls had gone back to the main hallway and
19:54
Speaker 1: they discovered this other door that they hadn't seen when
19:56
Speaker 1: they were searching over the first thirty minutes they had
19:58
Speaker 1: been in there. And this door led to this ominous
20:01
Speaker 1: stairwell that went down into what appeared to be the basement.
20:05
Speaker 1: And so at this point, you know, the girls felt
20:06
Speaker 1: like they had sort of searched the entire main floor,
20:09
Speaker 1: and you know, the two friends, not April, they really
20:11
Speaker 1: wanted to go down these steps and explore the basement.
20:14
Speaker 1: You know, they'd been here long enough that it seemed
20:16
Speaker 1: pretty clear that they were the only ones there that
20:18
Speaker 1: had been totally quiet, and even though it was creepy,
20:21
Speaker 1: I mean, ultimately they sort of felt safe at this point,
20:24
Speaker 1: and April did too, but she also was having a
20:26
Speaker 1: great time still taking pictures on the first floor, and
20:30
Speaker 1: so at this point the group decided to split up.
20:32
Speaker 1: The two friends would go down into the basement and
20:35
Speaker 1: April for a little bit longer would stay up on
20:37
Speaker 1: the first floor and just continue taking photos, and then
20:39
Speaker 1: she would join them, and so no big deal, they
20:42
Speaker 1: split up. The girls go down to the basement, April's
20:44
Speaker 1: taking her photos, doing her thing, and just a couple
20:47
Speaker 1: of minutes later, April hears her friends in the basement
20:50
Speaker 1: through the floors, yelling out something to the effect of, oh,
20:53
Speaker 1: my gosh, is that real? And then the other friend
20:56
Speaker 1: is like, yes, that Israel, Oh my gosh, And so
20:59
Speaker 1: April she runs to that doorway. She goes down the stairs,
21:02
Speaker 1: and she finds her friends at the foot of the
21:04
Speaker 1: stairs and they're looking out into the main space of
21:07
Speaker 1: the basement that April can't quite see yet, and so
21:10
Speaker 1: she goes right down to her friends.
21:11
Speaker 2: She's looking at them. They look horrified.
21:14
Speaker 1: They're looking out at something obviously terrible in the basement.
21:17
Speaker 1: And April turns from her friends to the basement and
21:21
Speaker 1: what she sees makes no sense. There's just like this
21:25
Speaker 1: empty basement, you know, with some stuff pushed up against
21:27
Speaker 1: the walls, but in the middle of the basement is
21:30
Speaker 1: what appears to be like this standalone metal jail cell,
21:35
Speaker 1: like imagine metal rungs that you would imagine in a jail,
21:38
Speaker 1: but all the way around it's about.
21:39
Speaker 2: Eight feet tall, ten feet wide, four feet deep.
21:42
Speaker 1: It's just this inexplicable standalone jail cell. At least that's
21:46
Speaker 1: the way April interpreted it. Then so did her friends.
21:49
Speaker 1: And as she's looking at it, April she sees that
21:52
Speaker 1: in the middle of the jail cell, if you will,
21:55
Speaker 1: is like this big metal box that's just sitting on
21:58
Speaker 1: the floor in the center of the cell. And then
22:01
Speaker 1: right above it in the ceiling is this pretty big cutout,
22:05
Speaker 1: like a hole in the ceiling. And so April sees
22:08
Speaker 1: this and takes in what she's seeing, and she can't
22:11
Speaker 1: really process it. She doesn't really understand what this is.
22:14
Speaker 1: And she's looking at her friends and they're so horrified.
22:17
Speaker 1: They've been yelling out about something being real, like what
22:19
Speaker 1: is that, Oh my gosh, And she's kind of looking
22:21
Speaker 1: back and forth, and then she sees it. She sees
22:25
Speaker 1: there's something else inside of this jail cell, and when
22:29
Speaker 1: she sees it, she recoils in horror, She grabs her friends.
22:33
Speaker 2: They sprint out of the.
22:34
Speaker 1: Funeral home and they call the authorities. When authorities arrived,
22:38
Speaker 1: they went right down into the basement and they looked
22:41
Speaker 1: inside of that jail cell, and quickly they determined that
22:45
Speaker 1: April and her friends had not been alone inside of
22:47
Speaker 1: this building like they had thought it would turn out.
22:51
Speaker 1: Six days earlier, a local man who had nothing to
22:54
Speaker 1: do with April and her friends, totally separate, had gone
22:57
Speaker 1: to this funeral home to have a look around. Except
22:59
Speaker 1: he wasn't an urban explorer. He was not going in
23:02
Speaker 1: here to have a good time or take photos. He
23:04
Speaker 1: was going inside to steal scrap metal and try to
23:07
Speaker 1: sell it for a profit.
23:09
Speaker 2: And so he made his way inside the funeral home.
23:11
Speaker 1: He looked around, you know, he didn't really find much,
23:14
Speaker 1: but eventually went down into the basement. And when he
23:17
Speaker 1: got down there, he turned he looked out at that
23:20
Speaker 1: space down there, and he saw this jail cell, this
23:23
Speaker 1: metal jail cell that just kind of sat in the
23:25
Speaker 1: middle of the basement. Except what he would have seen
23:29
Speaker 1: is just the bars that sort of surrounded the outside
23:33
Speaker 1: of the cell, the actual cell itself, the metal box
23:36
Speaker 1: in the middle that was on the floor that April
23:38
Speaker 1: saw and her friend saw that was not there, and
23:41
Speaker 1: the hole in the ceiling would not have been there.
23:43
Speaker 1: He would have just seen basically a lot of metal
23:47
Speaker 1: in the middle of the basement. So he's thinking, I've
23:49
Speaker 1: hit the jackpot. This is exactly what I've come here for,
23:52
Speaker 1: to take this metal and go sell it. And so
23:55
Speaker 1: this man he goes into the jail cell, into this cage,
23:58
Speaker 1: and he quickly realized the actual metal struts that made
24:02
Speaker 1: up the cage, even if they were super valuable, they
24:05
Speaker 1: were thick and difficult to cut through, and so realistically
24:09
Speaker 1: they were going to be really hard to extricate and
24:11
Speaker 1: get out of this place.
24:12
Speaker 2: But when the man is actually inside of this.
24:15
Speaker 1: Jail cell, this cage, he sees there's actually some other
24:19
Speaker 1: metal that he hadn't seen when he first came down
24:22
Speaker 1: that might be far easier to extract.
24:24
Speaker 2: Basically, right in the.
24:25
Speaker 1: Middle of the cell were additional metal rods that were
24:29
Speaker 1: running from the ceiling down to the ground.
24:31
Speaker 2: They were far thinner and.
24:32
Speaker 1: Easier to move around, and he's thinking, you know, I
24:35
Speaker 1: could actually cut these and get these out of here
24:37
Speaker 1: and turn a profit on them and then come back
24:39
Speaker 1: at a later date with you know, more people or
24:42
Speaker 1: more powerful tools to cut the metal that sort of
24:45
Speaker 1: was the cage, the stuff that he had originally seen,
24:48
Speaker 1: and so, feeling pretty optimistic, the guy put his stuff down,
24:50
Speaker 1: you know, his phone, his wallet, his other things, off
24:52
Speaker 1: to the side, you know, in the cage, and then
24:55
Speaker 1: he got out his bolt cutters and he cut the
24:58
Speaker 1: very first one of these thinner ca right in the
25:00
Speaker 1: middle of the cell. And as soon as he cut
25:03
Speaker 1: one of them, there was this loud rumbling sound he
25:06
Speaker 1: would have heard right above him, and then this big
25:09
Speaker 1: metal box came crashing down and pinned him.
25:13
Speaker 2: To the ground.
25:14
Speaker 1: It would turn out what this man had walked inside
25:17
Speaker 1: of was not a jail cell in the basement of
25:20
Speaker 1: the funeral home. It was actually the inner workings of
25:23
Speaker 1: something known as a casket lift. Basically, the funeral home
25:26
Speaker 1: has to raise caskets from the basement where potentially they're
25:29
Speaker 1: stored up to the main floor to be used. And
25:33
Speaker 1: you know, they're pretty cumbersome big things that need to
25:35
Speaker 1: get moved around, and so effectively they have an elevator
25:38
Speaker 1: that brings them up. And so that big metal box
25:41
Speaker 1: that came crashing down on the sky was the actual
25:44
Speaker 1: lift itself that actually carried up the caskets, and the
25:47
Speaker 1: cord that he cut were actually the cords that supported
25:51
Speaker 1: that lift, and so as soon as he cut one
25:53
Speaker 1: of them, he was cutting the support to effectively the
25:57
Speaker 1: elevator car that was right above him that then fell
26:00
Speaker 1: and crushed him. However, he didn't die from getting crushed.
26:04
Speaker 1: He just got trapped. And as soon as he realized
26:07
Speaker 1: he was trapped and being kind of crushed to death here,
26:10
Speaker 1: he reached for his phone, but he realized his phone
26:13
Speaker 1: was just barely outside of his reach. He couldn't get
26:17
Speaker 1: to his phone, and nobody knew he was here. This
26:20
Speaker 1: was an illegal activity. He didn't broadcast where he was going,
26:24
Speaker 1: and so he's stuck. He can't call anyone, and no
26:27
Speaker 1: one knows he's here. And so for six days, that
26:31
Speaker 1: lift gradually crushed this man to death. And then finally
26:36
Speaker 1: when April and her friend showed up and they went
26:38
Speaker 1: down in the basement, they didn't just see this.
26:41
Speaker 2: Destroyed casket lift.
26:43
Speaker 1: They saw this dead man's body and he was literally outstretched,
26:47
Speaker 1: still reaching for his phone. On the morning of September tenth,
27:04
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty seven, police Constable Dick Ellis walked into an
27:07
Speaker 1: interview room in a police station in South Yorkshire, England.
27:11
Speaker 1: Inside of this room was a table, and sitting on
27:13
Speaker 1: the other side of this table were these two security guards.
27:16
Speaker 1: One was named Stephen Brooks and the other was named
27:19
Speaker 1: David Goldthorpe. And from PC Ellis's perspective, his first impression
27:24
Speaker 1: of these two guys is they were like big, burly,
27:27
Speaker 1: tough looking men. He could tell they were both visibly shaken,
27:31
Speaker 1: like something had really rattled both of these guys. However,
27:35
Speaker 1: before Ellis could even sit down and begin asking basic
27:38
Speaker 1: questions about what was going on here, these two security
27:41
Speaker 1: guards just launched into this totally crazy sounding story. The
27:45
Speaker 1: men told Ellis that the night before they had been
27:48
Speaker 1: patrolling this construction site where workers were building a six
27:51
Speaker 1: mile stretch of highway and bridge that were called the
27:54
Speaker 1: Stocksbridge Bypass. Now, at this time of night, there was
27:57
Speaker 1: nobody at the site, no workers, nothing like that, and
28:00
Speaker 1: so really it was the security guard's job to make
28:03
Speaker 1: sure nobody entered the site and either tampered with equipment
28:06
Speaker 1: or tried to steal anything. Now, the night had been
28:08
Speaker 1: very routine and quiet until around midnight. It was at
28:12
Speaker 1: that point that David and Steven, these two security guards,
28:15
Speaker 1: had reached the bridge, the half constructed bridge portion of
28:18
Speaker 1: this bypass, and as they're walking along the highway and
28:22
Speaker 1: they see the bridge out in front of them, they
28:24
Speaker 1: stopped because they saw clearly there was a figure standing
28:28
Speaker 1: on this bridge. It almost looked like a man who
28:31
Speaker 1: was wearing a long jacket, like a cloak or something,
28:34
Speaker 1: and he appeared to be staring down below the bridge,
28:36
Speaker 1: down towards the valley underneath what the bridge was actually
28:39
Speaker 1: going over. Like this man clearly had not spotted these
28:42
Speaker 1: security guards, and so naturally they began calling out to
28:46
Speaker 1: this guy, you know, asking him like, hey, what are
28:48
Speaker 1: you doing here?
28:49
Speaker 2: What's going on? This is a private construction site, like
28:51
Speaker 2: you need to go.
28:52
Speaker 1: But the guy on the bridge didn't react. He just
28:55
Speaker 1: kept staring down to the valley below. And so at
28:58
Speaker 1: that point, as the two security guards are now walking
29:00
Speaker 1: in the direction of the sky, one of them lifts
29:03
Speaker 1: up his flashlight and shines it at this man. And
29:07
Speaker 1: when he does, the beam of light appears to just
29:10
Speaker 1: go through this man's body, like his body isn't solid,
29:14
Speaker 1: and the light just passed right through. And as soon
29:17
Speaker 1: as they did that, both Stephen and David just stopped,
29:20
Speaker 1: shocked at what they're seeing, aiming this light at the sky.
29:23
Speaker 2: And as they're doing this.
29:24
Speaker 1: The figure appeared to kind of turn and look at
29:28
Speaker 1: David and Stephen, and they were so unsettled and terrified
29:31
Speaker 1: by it that instead of protecting the construction site, they
29:34
Speaker 1: just turned and ran and they went to the police. Now,
29:38
Speaker 1: after PCLS had been told this story, he did not
29:41
Speaker 1: believe in any way that what they had experienced was supernatural.
29:45
Speaker 1: He's thinking, Okay, clearly, you know, you saw some guy
29:48
Speaker 1: and you know, maybe he shouldn't have been there, and
29:50
Speaker 1: maybe it was a trick of the light or something,
29:52
Speaker 1: or maybe that wasn't a person at all, and you
29:55
Speaker 1: just thought it was like, who knows, but there has
29:56
Speaker 1: to be a logical, rational explanation here. And so, feeling
30:00
Speaker 1: kind of annoyed that he was called in to deal
30:02
Speaker 1: with this, Elis looks at these two guys and he's like, look,
30:05
Speaker 1: this is not a police matter. Why don't you guys,
30:08
Speaker 1: if you're so shaken up by this, you know, go
30:10
Speaker 1: talk to the church or something like this is not
30:12
Speaker 1: something we can help you with. And at that the
30:15
Speaker 1: two security guards just said okay, and they got up
30:18
Speaker 1: and they left, and Ellis truthfully didn't think about this
30:21
Speaker 1: at all. It was like, okay, great, that's done. I
30:23
Speaker 1: don't got to deal with that, and he went on
30:25
Speaker 1: with his day. But later that day, Ellis got a
30:29
Speaker 1: call from his boss being like, hey, did you tell
30:32
Speaker 1: two security guards who came in here to go talk
30:35
Speaker 1: to the church about some ghosts they saw at a
30:38
Speaker 1: construction site or something. And at this Elis had to
30:40
Speaker 1: kind of explain what had happened and how he had
30:42
Speaker 1: sort of flippantly told them to, you know, go see
30:44
Speaker 1: the church if they really thought they saw a ghost.
30:47
Speaker 2: But his boss was like.
30:48
Speaker 1: Well, they took you literally, and they are currently at
30:51
Speaker 1: the local church, those two security guards right now, and
30:54
Speaker 1: they are refusing to leave unless the church helps them
30:58
Speaker 1: with this ghost situation. And so Elis's boss told him
31:01
Speaker 1: that you just need to go to the church, get
31:04
Speaker 1: these two guys.
31:04
Speaker 2: To calm down and leave. Go do that right now.
31:08
Speaker 1: And so Ellis is like, I can't believe they took
31:10
Speaker 1: that seriously. Okay, fine, So he hops in his cruiser,
31:13
Speaker 1: he goes to the church. He finds these two guys
31:16
Speaker 1: who are still totally shaken up, and they're they're pleading
31:18
Speaker 1: with people to take them seriously, somebody needs to go
31:21
Speaker 1: out there and see what's on the bridge, see what this.
31:24
Speaker 2: Could have been.
31:25
Speaker 1: And Eliss like, guys, I will tonight go to the bridge.
31:30
Speaker 2: I will check it out. I'll see what's going on there.
31:33
Speaker 1: If you leave the church and you don't come back,
31:35
Speaker 1: like leave these people alone. And at this, you know,
31:38
Speaker 1: David and Steven they're totally relieved. They're like, oh you will,
31:40
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, great, we'll leave, thank you, like let
31:43
Speaker 1: us know what you find.
31:44
Speaker 2: And they left the church.
31:46
Speaker 1: And so they left and Pclis is like, okay, great,
31:49
Speaker 1: I guess tonight I'm gonna go looking for ghosts. And
31:51
Speaker 1: so that night, around midnight, Pclis and his partner drove
31:55
Speaker 1: over to the construction site. Specifically, they went to the bridge.
31:59
Speaker 1: They got on the road that actually went underneath this
32:02
Speaker 1: unfinished bridge, and they camped out on this lower road.
32:06
Speaker 2: Looking straight up in front of them was this bridge.
32:08
Speaker 1: They're basically just gonna monitor this bridge because that's where
32:11
Speaker 1: the security guards claim to have seen this figure, this ghost.
32:15
Speaker 2: You know, they're gonna stake out this bridge, see what happens.
32:17
Speaker 1: Call it good. Now, at first nothing happened on this bridge.
32:21
Speaker 1: Allis and his partner just sat there, staring board up
32:24
Speaker 1: at this bridge, waiting for you know, the time to
32:26
Speaker 1: pass by so they could leave. But at some point
32:29
Speaker 1: Ellis noticed movement up on the bridge, and so did
32:32
Speaker 1: his partner. Now they couldn't quite tell what it was,
32:34
Speaker 1: and they couldn't even see if it was still moving
32:36
Speaker 1: around anymore, but clearly something had moved on the bridge.
32:40
Speaker 1: And so for a couple of seconds, Allis and his
32:42
Speaker 1: partner are just staring really intently up at the bridge,
32:44
Speaker 1: waiting to see something else happen.
32:46
Speaker 2: But you know, nothing else did.
32:49
Speaker 1: And so Elis is like, well, I gotta go up
32:51
Speaker 1: there and check, because, you know, maybe there is some
32:54
Speaker 1: guy who's trespassing on the construction site.
32:57
Speaker 2: And that's what the security guard saw.
32:58
Speaker 1: Like, I gotta go up there and see because from
33:00
Speaker 1: down here, you know, we really can't see too well.
33:02
Speaker 1: And so Ellis told his partner to just stay put
33:04
Speaker 1: in the car that he Ellis would go up on
33:06
Speaker 1: the bridge and have a look around.
33:08
Speaker 2: And so Ellis he got out of the car.
33:10
Speaker 1: All he had was a flashlight and he began walking
33:13
Speaker 1: over to the bottom of this bridge, and there was
33:15
Speaker 1: actually a ladder he would have to climb up to
33:17
Speaker 1: the actual bridge, because remember they're on the road below
33:20
Speaker 1: this bridge. And so ellisie gets to the ladder. He
33:24
Speaker 1: begins climbing up the ladder and as he's going up,
33:26
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of staring up, you know, almost
33:28
Speaker 1: expecting somebody to poke their head over, but you know,
33:31
Speaker 1: it's quiet, no one's looking over the edge. And eventually
33:33
Speaker 1: Ellis gets to the top and he climbs onto the
33:36
Speaker 1: bridge and again it's this unfinished bridge. There's no traffic
33:39
Speaker 1: up here, and he looks roughly in the direction of
33:42
Speaker 1: where he thought he saw a movement when he was
33:44
Speaker 1: down in the car looking up here, which also happened
33:47
Speaker 1: to be roughly the area where the two security guards
33:50
Speaker 1: had described seeing the figure that their light had shone through.
33:54
Speaker 1: And sure enough, Ellis looks and he sees there's this
33:58
Speaker 1: cloaked figure standing a lite ways off of the side
34:01
Speaker 1: of the bridge, apparently just looking down towards his police car.
34:05
Speaker 1: And Alis at first, he's kind of shocked. He can't
34:08
Speaker 1: believe that, like there's some legitimacy to the story. These
34:11
Speaker 1: guys had told and he couldn't help but be kind
34:13
Speaker 1: of frightened for a second. But then Ellis raised his
34:16
Speaker 1: flashlight and shined it at this figure, and as soon
34:19
Speaker 1: as he did, he just laughed because all it was
34:22
Speaker 1: was a plastic tarp wrapped around some construction equipment. Like,
34:26
Speaker 1: that's what the security guards clearly had seen. And you
34:29
Speaker 1: know when they shine their light, I mean it's a
34:31
Speaker 1: clear plastic tarp here. You know, the light could theoretically
34:34
Speaker 1: go through it. You know, you can kind of see
34:36
Speaker 1: how they would think, oh my gosh, it's a ghost.
34:39
Speaker 1: And so Ellis is like, this is all this was.
34:41
Speaker 1: This was nothing. I knew it was nothing, and now
34:43
Speaker 1: I know it's nothing. And so after doing a cursory
34:47
Speaker 1: walk around the bridge to you know, make sure nobody
34:49
Speaker 1: was up there, and you know, he looked around. There
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Speaker 1: wasn't anybody there, Ellis went back to the ladder, climbed
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Speaker 1: back down, got in the car with his partner, and
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Speaker 1: explained to him that this whole thing was a joke,
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Speaker 1: and of course there's no ghost, there's no criminals, there's nothing.
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Speaker 2: This is no big deal.
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Speaker 1: Now, Allis and his partner could have at this point
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Speaker 1: just left and gone home, but they had told their
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Speaker 1: boss they'd come out here for at least an hour,
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Speaker 1: and you know, they'd only been here for maybe thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes at this point. And so the two of them decided,
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Speaker 1: you know what, just because we said we would, let's
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Speaker 1: just stay here a little bit longer and make sure
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Speaker 1: nobody goes on this bridge. You know, we'll give it another,
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Speaker 1: you know, thirty minutes or so, and so Allis and
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Speaker 1: his partner just kind of sit back in their seats
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Speaker 1: and settle in for this last little stretch of their shift. However,
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Speaker 1: about twenty minutes into this final thirty minutes, Ellis is
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Speaker 1: still just sitting there, his windows open, and he's just
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Speaker 1: kind of doing nothing, waiting around, when suddenly he's hit
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Speaker 1: with this unbelievably cold gust of aar that comes into
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Speaker 1: the car through his window. And it's kind of like sudden,
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Speaker 1: like he's being hit with this gust of cold air.
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Speaker 1: And then at the same time, Ellis began feeling this
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Speaker 1: incredible pressure on his chest, like it was so intense
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Speaker 1: he thought he was having a heart attack, and he
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Speaker 1: wanted to say something to his partner, but it was
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Speaker 1: like he couldn't even move he's like frozen, he's getting scared.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't know what's happening.
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Speaker 1: And as much as he wanted to like yell out
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Speaker 1: and get his partner's attention to help him, he suddenly
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Speaker 1: had this overwhelming feeling that there was someone off to
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Speaker 1: the side staring at him, someone right outside the car.
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Speaker 1: And even though he didn't want to look, he found
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Speaker 1: himself slowly turning and looking out his open window, and
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Speaker 1: right there, immediately outside the door is this man standing
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Speaker 1: practically pressed up against the window, his torso is inches
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Speaker 1: away from Ellis's face, just standing there inexplicably, like this
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Speaker 1: guy snuck up on them. They didn't even hear him,
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Speaker 1: and so Elis at this point he breaks out of
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Speaker 1: his sort of trance. He screams and gets his partner's attention,
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Speaker 1: and then he pushes open his door and he jumps
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Speaker 1: out to confront this person who's snuck up on them,
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Speaker 1: but there's no one outside the car, and so Ellis
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Speaker 1: he turns to his partner and he's like, hey, did
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Speaker 1: you just see what I just saw?
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Speaker 2: Did you see that guy?
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Speaker 1: And Ellis's partner, who's totally ashen faced, just looks at
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Speaker 1: Ellis and He's like, yeah, I did see him. And
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Speaker 1: so after looking around for a couple more seconds, Ellis
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Speaker 1: climbed back into the car, and then he and his
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Speaker 1: partner debriefed what had just happened, and Ellis's partner would
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Speaker 1: tell Ellis that from his seat, he actually had a
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Speaker 1: better vantage point than Ellis did to seeing this guy.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Ellis was basically right on top of this guy,
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Speaker 1: but his partner was a little bit farther back and
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Speaker 1: had a better angle. And he would tell Ellis that
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Speaker 1: at some point he had turned and seen the guy
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Speaker 1: standing there, and the guy he was wearing this old coat,
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Speaker 1: this long coat that sort of looked like it belonged
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Speaker 1: in the eighteen hundreds or something. And the partner would say, like,
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Speaker 1: he didn't hear this guy approach. He didn't know how
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Speaker 1: he got there, But at some point, he said, the
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Speaker 1: guy in the coat, the guy outside crouched down just
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Speaker 1: enough that he was looking in the car in the
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Speaker 1: direction of Ellis's partner, and Ellis's partner said he was
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Speaker 1: staring right at the.
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Speaker 2: Guy, but the guy he had no face.
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Speaker 1: Ultimately, Ellis and his partner would return to the station
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Speaker 1: that night and they would file a report about what
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Speaker 1: happened to them, but they would simply describe it as
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Speaker 1: inexplicable phenomenon, and after filing it, they basically hoped they
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Speaker 1: would never have to talk about it again, except that
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Speaker 1: wouldn't be possible because shortly after filing that report, the
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Speaker 1: construction was finished, and so the highway and the bridge
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Speaker 1: were open to the public, and pretty much right away
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Speaker 1: people started dying on that bridge. Like a crazy high
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Speaker 1: number of people just inexplicably would get in these fatal
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Speaker 1: accidents on the bridge. And this bridge was not like
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Speaker 1: especially hazardous. It was a beautiful, brand new bridge. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there really should not have been this many accidents. But
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Speaker 1: it was not just that so many people were dying
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Speaker 1: on this bridge inexplicably no. Also in tandem with all
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Speaker 1: the fatal accidents were all the independently reported sightings of
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Speaker 1: this dark figure ste on the bridge that had no face.
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Speaker 1: So the leading theory amongst people who believe what's happening
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Speaker 1: at this bridge is basically paranormal, is that the construction
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Speaker 1: of this bridge and the highway disturbed a grave site
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Speaker 1: and that that has led to all the tragedy and
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Speaker 1: death that has followed. But they've never actually been able
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Speaker 1: to prove if there really was a grave site where
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Speaker 1: this bridge or the highway was built. The two security guards,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Brooks and David Goldthorpe, both quit their jobs. As
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Speaker 1: for Ellis and his partner, they've never changed their stories
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Speaker 1: and they also have never found a reasonable.
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Speaker 2: Explanation for what they saw. Thank you so much for watching.
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