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This Chinese DEATH VILLAGE keeps claiming lives... · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to share three stories.
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  Speaker 1: today's stories. Late at night, on October twenty sixth, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty eight, a seventy two year old woman named Harris
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  Speaker 1: was sitting in her living room in Toledo, Ohio when
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  Speaker 1: her phone rang, and the first thing she did when
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  Speaker 1: it rang was looked at the clock. It was ten
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  Speaker 1: thirty pm, like this is not when people called her
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  Speaker 1: and so worried something was wrong. She got up and
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  Speaker 1: she answered the phone and she said hello, and on
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  Speaker 1: the other end of the line somebody said back, hey, Sis,
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  Speaker 1: and ethel immediately knew who this was. It was not
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  Speaker 1: a sibling, despite the greeting, Hey, Sis, it was someone
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  Speaker 1: that was very close with her and her husband Don.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, this person who she was speaking to was
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  Speaker 1: Don's best friend, a fifty nine year old man named
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  Speaker 1: Lee Epps. And for decades, Lee and Ethel and Dawn
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  Speaker 1: had lived next to each other. They were neighbors and
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  Speaker 1: basically every day they were at each other's houses together.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they were super duper close.
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  Speaker 1: But Lee had eventually moved to another town and so
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  Speaker 1: they didn't see each other as much, but they did
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  Speaker 1: get together a fair amount. And also Lee very regularly
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  Speaker 1: would call the house and just check in, and so
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  Speaker 1: Ethel's thinking, Okay, it's a little bit late, you know,
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  Speaker 1: ten thirty at night, but it's Lee, so clearly he's
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  Speaker 1: just calling to check in. But before Ethel could really
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  Speaker 1: even respond to his greeting of asis, because that's what
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  Speaker 1: he called ursis, he just kept on talking. It was
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  Speaker 1: as if, you know, Ethel wasn't even there. He was
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  Speaker 1: just sort of delivering a message. He was like, Hey, sis, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm feeling really bad, like I've never felt this way before,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, I really need your husband Don to
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  Speaker 1: get in touch with me the moment he gets back,
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  Speaker 1: and then Lee hung up and ethel after you know,
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  Speaker 1: the phone call died. She was really confused because one,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it seemed like a sort of normal ketchup call,
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  Speaker 1: but he's saying something that sounded really serious that you know.
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  Speaker 2: Something's going on with him.
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  Speaker 1: But also too, what immediately stood out to her was
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  Speaker 1: how did he know Don wasn't there at the moment.
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  Speaker 2: Like he wasn't nearby.
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  Speaker 1: How could he have just guessed that Don wasn't home
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  Speaker 1: right now because Don wasn't He was out, He was
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  Speaker 1: going to be home soon, but he was out at
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  Speaker 1: the time he said it. It was like he had
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  Speaker 1: this knowledge that he was going, and so it just
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  Speaker 1: seemed odd that he knew that piece of information. And so,
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  Speaker 1: because she was sort of confused by this call and
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  Speaker 1: worried about Lee, you know, considering what he said, she
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  Speaker 1: tried calling him back, but Lee didn't answer. She tried
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  Speaker 1: several more times, never heard from Lee, and then eventually
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  Speaker 1: her husband, Don, he came home and she explained to him, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I got this weird call from Lee. You know, he said,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he wanted you to get in touch with
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  Speaker 1: him as soon as he came back, because he's not
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  Speaker 1: feeling good or something.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really know. So Don's like, all right, that's weird.
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  Speaker 1: So he tries calling Lee and Lee doesn't answer, and
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  Speaker 1: so at this point Don he's like, Ethel, go over
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  Speaker 1: it again, like what exactly did he say? Like did
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  Speaker 1: he sound scared? Did he sound confused?
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  Speaker 2: Like what was he talking about? And Ethel said, like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, it just.
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  Speaker 1: He just sort of stated that he just didn't feel
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  Speaker 1: good and he had never felt this way before, and
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  Speaker 1: he just really wanted to talk to you, Don. But
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  Speaker 1: again he mentioned you were out of the house. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how he knew that, and he said to
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  Speaker 1: have you call when you came back.
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  Speaker 2: That's really what happened.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand it either, because Ethelyn down really didn't
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  Speaker 1: know what to make of this, and just given the
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  Speaker 1: fact that maybe Lee could be in trouble, they were like,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, let's just drive over to his house
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  Speaker 1: in the other town and just check on him, just
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  Speaker 1: make sure he's okay. So they hop in the car,
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  Speaker 1: they drive to Lee's house and Lee's not there. And
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  Speaker 1: so even though it was late at night. Ethel and
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  Speaker 1: Down really were worried about their friend, and so they
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  Speaker 1: began knocking on neighbors doors to see if anybody knew
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  Speaker 1: where he was. But it would take a while, but
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  Speaker 1: eventually one of the neighbors said that Lee actually was
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  Speaker 1: at the hospital. And at this, you know, Ethel and
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  Speaker 1: Donn it's like their worst fears are confirmed. Something really
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  Speaker 1: is wrong with their friend. And so they went to
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  Speaker 1: the nearest hospital, which is called Mercy Hospital, and when
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  Speaker 1: they got there they learned that yes, Lee was admitted
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  Speaker 1: to the hospital, but unfortunately he was dead. And this
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  Speaker 1: on its face was of course shocking news for Ethel
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  Speaker 1: and Down. I mean, they did not expect to find
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  Speaker 1: out that their friend of many decades was you know,
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  Speaker 1: abruptly and sort of inexplicably dead. But that was far
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  Speaker 1: from the most shocking thing they learned when they spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the medical staff about what actually happened to Lee.
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  Speaker 1: They would eventually tell Ethel and Down that after some complications,
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  Speaker 1: Lee ultimately passed away at precisely.
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  Speaker 2: Ten thirty pm the previous night.
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  Speaker 1: His actual time of death exactly coincided with the moment
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  Speaker 1: Ethel got that phone call from Lee where he said
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  Speaker 1: to her, I just don't feel right.
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  Speaker 2: I've never felt this way before.
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  Speaker 1: Please, when your husband Don gets home, have him call me.
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  Speaker 1: Ethel and Don have no way to prove this, but
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  Speaker 1: they believe that that phone call was actually Lee's spirit,
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  Speaker 1: his soul, trying to talk to his best friend one
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  Speaker 1: afternoon in the summer of two thousand and six, a
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  Speaker 1: seventy year old man named Ma Ching Mao and several
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  Speaker 1: of his family members walked out of their house in
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  Speaker 1: Luoan Village, which was a very small community in rural China.
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  Speaker 1: Luohan Village was known for being this beautiful historic place,
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  Speaker 1: and as Ching Mao and his family walked along, they
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  Speaker 1: passed by these beautiful lush fields and saw these tall
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  Speaker 1: mountains off in the distance. But they also passed by
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  Speaker 1: something that made Ching Mao and his family all very sad.
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  Speaker 1: The charred remains of dozens of burned out buildings were
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  Speaker 1: just littering the landscape. So Ching Mao had lived in
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  Speaker 1: this village his whole life, and he remembered when it
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  Speaker 1: really was this happy, tight knit community of over one
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  Speaker 1: hundred people and it really was just this picturesque place
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  Speaker 1: to live.
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  Speaker 2: But three years.
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  Speaker 1: Ago that had all changed, and life in this village
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  Speaker 1: we became one disaster after another. There had been not one,
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  Speaker 1: but two enormous fires which were caused by faulty wiring,
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  Speaker 1: but they had destroyed all these homes and businesses and
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  Speaker 1: all these historic buildings. I mean, it really kind of
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  Speaker 1: like changed the entire face of this town and.
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  Speaker 2: They still hadn't rebuilt it yet.
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  Speaker 1: But as bad as those fires were, it was actually
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  Speaker 1: what happened after the fires stopped.
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  Speaker 2: Burning that really really made this place a nightmare on earth.
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  Speaker 1: And it was that, for whatever reason, the mortality rate
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  Speaker 1: in this little village in China.
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  Speaker 2: Just spiked like mad.
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  Speaker 1: It was like all these people were just dropping dead
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  Speaker 1: out of nowhere. And it got to the point where
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  Speaker 1: the villagers were scared that like some illness was plaguing them,
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  Speaker 1: some unseen plague they didn't even know. And it got
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  Speaker 1: so bad, so many people were dying that they brought
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  Speaker 1: in these Centers for Disease Control, the CDC. They came
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  Speaker 1: in and actually did a full blown investigation of this village,
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  Speaker 1: and they can included that there is no connection between
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  Speaker 1: all these deaths. All these people that are dying in
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  Speaker 1: your village are dying from common illnesses or old age,
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  Speaker 1: like these are natural deaths. It's just this sort of
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  Speaker 1: anomalous spike in the mortality rate. And it's unfortunately, you know,
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  Speaker 1: following this horrible tragedy, which were these fires. So it's
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  Speaker 1: basically like a tragic set of coincidences that these terrible
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  Speaker 1: things are befalling the village all at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: But a lot of people, including Ching Mao, didn't buy
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  Speaker 1: that what was happening was natural. Instead, a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people began to think that their village was cursed, and
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  Speaker 1: so Ching Mao and his family they walked past all
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  Speaker 1: these burned out buildings and they made their way towards
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  Speaker 1: the center of the village, where there was a temple,
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  Speaker 1: because there was going to be yet another funeral for
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  Speaker 1: another person in their village, a young woman who had
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  Speaker 1: died inexplicably, at least in the eyes of the villagers.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't make sense she had.
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  Speaker 1: Died, but you know, apparently it's you know, a natural
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  Speaker 1: cause according to the CDC. But they were going to
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  Speaker 1: a funeral, and so into the temple they went, and
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  Speaker 1: before long the procession began. Later that night, Ching Mao
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  Speaker 1: stumbled his way through the dark streets of the village
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  Speaker 1: towards his home. Following that funeral, Ching Mao and his
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  Speaker 1: family had gone to the deceased woman's family home for
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  Speaker 1: this big ceremonial dinner that was typical after these funerals,
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  Speaker 1: and Ching Mao's family they had basically left pretty much
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  Speaker 1: right after the meal itself. But Ching Mao he was
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  Speaker 1: feeling kind of down, you know, like many people in
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  Speaker 1: the village, considering their sort of cursed status as they believed.
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  Speaker 1: He had stayed behind, and he had continued eating and
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  Speaker 1: drinking some alcohol and talking with his neighbors. Now he
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  Speaker 1: was finally on his way back home, but as he walked,
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  Speaker 1: he suddenly felt this really sharp pain in his gut,
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  Speaker 1: and it hurt so bad that it was making it
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  Speaker 1: really hard to walk, and so Ching Mau clutched his
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  Speaker 1: stomach and really had to force himself to keep moving
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  Speaker 1: one foot in front of the other. And then finally
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  Speaker 1: when he got to his home, he opened up the
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  Speaker 1: front door, but the pain was so blinding that he
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  Speaker 1: just screamed out for help and then collapsed onto the
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  Speaker 1: ground right inside the house. And then Ching Mao as
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  Speaker 1: he's laying on the ground, he began vomiting uncontrollably onto
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  Speaker 1: the floor, and then he just passed away right there,
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  Speaker 1: right in front of his whole family. Now Ching Mao
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  Speaker 1: himself was not like a hugely influential person in this village.
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  Speaker 1: He had been there his whole life, and everybody knew him,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but there was just something about his death
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  Speaker 1: that felt really monumental. It was like everybody in the
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  Speaker 1: village felt it that when he died for no apparent reason, really,
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  Speaker 1: it just felt like enough is enough. There is no
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  Speaker 1: way these deaths that have ravaged our village are natural.
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  Speaker 1: It's not possible, and we will not take that as
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  Speaker 1: an answer any longer. And so the village director, who
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  Speaker 1: basically is like the mayor of the village, he wound
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  Speaker 1: up getting in touch with the provincial Health Department and
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  Speaker 1: he told them what was going on and what the
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  Speaker 1: CDC had already communicated to them, and how they didn't
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  Speaker 1: buy it. And so this health department they sent out
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  Speaker 1: twenty experts to this village and they did this big
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  Speaker 1: investigation to try to figure out, like, is there something
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  Speaker 1: causing all these deaths. Is it linked to the fires
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  Speaker 1: in some way? Like what's going on in this village?
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  Speaker 1: And you know what they came up with. Turns out
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  Speaker 1: it's all natural. There's nothing wrong here. We believe what
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  Speaker 1: the CDC said, there's basically no issues whatsoever.
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  Speaker 2: You have nothing to worry about. And the village said, no,
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  Speaker 2: we still don't believe that.
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  Speaker 1: This is not acceptable, and so they went back to
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  Speaker 1: their village director and they said, you got to do
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  Speaker 1: something else because this is not acceptable, and he agreed,
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  Speaker 1: and so he actually got in touch with the police,
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  Speaker 1: just the local police, and said, hey, you come in,
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  Speaker 1: you investigate this, try to see if there's something anything
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  Speaker 1: that they have missed that could maybe explain why so
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  Speaker 1: many people are dying in this village.
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  Speaker 2: And so the.
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  Speaker 1: Police they come into this village and they do this
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  Speaker 1: broad strokes very why i'd sweeping investigation, and they do
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  Speaker 1: find something, and what they discover completely explains what's going
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  Speaker 1: on in this village. It would turn out the village's doctor,
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  Speaker 1: they're one doctor, was this guy named Ma Faumn and
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  Speaker 1: Ma was not really a doctor.
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  Speaker 2: He had basically read a couple of medical books.
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  Speaker 1: That was the extent of his training, he was not
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  Speaker 1: a doctor, and so he's the guy they're going to
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  Speaker 1: whenever they have any medical issues, and he has no
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  Speaker 1: idea what he's doing, but he benefited from people getting
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  Speaker 1: sick because he's the town doctor. And so you have
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  Speaker 1: this guy who can't help you pretending to help you,
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  Speaker 1: likely making it worse. Who profits from illness in this village.
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  Speaker 1: So that's bad, but it gets worse. Ma was also
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the funeral home in this village, the
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  Speaker 1: one funeral home. So if his Kroc science, his Kroc
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  Speaker 1: medicine didn't save you, or if you didn't inexplicably get
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  Speaker 1: better basically on your own, and you died, he also
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  Speaker 1: profited on you. So basically ma fo Man had a
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  Speaker 1: monopoly on suffering in this village. If you got sick,
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  Speaker 1: he made money. If you died, he made money. The
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  Speaker 1: only way he didn't make money is if you lived.
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  Speaker 2: And for a while, Ma fo Man just kind of allowed.
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  Speaker 1: This setup to run as is. He didn't influence it
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  Speaker 1: at all. He just was a fake doctor and was
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  Speaker 1: the funeral director. But in time he wanted more money,
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  Speaker 1: and so he began poisoning the village's water supply with cyanide,
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  Speaker 1: because then you have more people getting sick makes more money,
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  Speaker 1: and more people dying makes more money. But even that
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  Speaker 1: still wasn't enough for Mafo Man. He needed more death
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  Speaker 1: and suffering. And so those fires that was not faulty wiring,
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  Speaker 1: that was just luck on Mafo Man's part that he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't caught.
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  Speaker 2: That was pure arson.
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  Speaker 1: He burned that place down, killing people in the process,
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  Speaker 1: because again he's got this monopoly on death and suffering
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  Speaker 1: in this village. And so in the end, the police
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  Speaker 1: who came in, they did this investigation and they discovered
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  Speaker 1: that those fires were actually arson, and it eventually led back.
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  Speaker 2: To ma fo Man.
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  Speaker 1: In total, ma fou Man killed seventy six people, all
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  Speaker 1: people that he lived with. These are like his friends
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  Speaker 1: and his family. These are his people. He killed seventy
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  Speaker 1: six of them, and so he was ultimately convicted of
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  Speaker 1: murder and he was sentenced to death. One morning in
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  Speaker 1: September of eighteen ninety three, a twenty five year old
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  Speaker 1: man named Paul Marsh sat at a dining room table
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  Speaker 1: inside of his aunt's house in New Haven, Connecticut. He
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  Speaker 1: was there with his mother and his father to visit
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  Speaker 1: his aunt, whose name was Miss Blackwood, and also to
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  Speaker 1: visit his nineteen year old cousin, whose name was Madeline.
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  Speaker 1: Madeline was being looked after by Miss Blackwood because her
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  Speaker 1: parents had died for years ago, making her an orphan,
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  Speaker 1: and Miss Blackwood certainly had the means. She was very
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  Speaker 1: wealthy then, so she took Madeline in and so basically
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  Speaker 1: that was her new de facto mother, and so Paul
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  Speaker 1: his parents in Madeline. They were all having this big,
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  Speaker 1: luxurious breakfast that Miss Blackwood's housemaid had prepared for them,
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  Speaker 1: and they were waiting for Paul's aunt to wake up
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  Speaker 1: and come downstairs and join them. And this was not
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  Speaker 1: just like a formality because it was her house and
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  Speaker 1: they were trying to be respectful. No, actually they loved
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  Speaker 1: Miss Blackwood. I mean, Paul's aunt was awesome. She was
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  Speaker 1: super energetic, and she was really fun, and of course
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  Speaker 1: she was like very wealthy, and her house was awesome,
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  Speaker 1: and so family generally loved to visit with Miss Blackwood,
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  Speaker 1: and so basically everybody's waiting for her to get up
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  Speaker 1: to start the day for real. But after a while,
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  Speaker 1: when Miss Blackwood had not come downstairs, the group just
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  Speaker 1: began eating their breakfast and just figured, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: she's taken her time and we'll catch.
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  Speaker 2: Up with her, you know, after breakfast or something.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone's eating their food and just chatting and having
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  Speaker 1: a nice morning, when suddenly the housemaid, who had stepped
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  Speaker 1: away a few minutes earlier, she comes running into the kitchen.
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  Speaker 2: She's very upset, and she.
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  Speaker 1: Just yells out that Miss Blackwood is dead. And for
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  Speaker 1: a second, Paul was totally confused because just the night
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  Speaker 1: before his aunt had seemed completely.
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  Speaker 2: Normal and healthy.
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  Speaker 1: There were no signs that she had any health issues whatsoever.
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  Speaker 1: But the family followed the housemaid up to Miss Blackwood's
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  Speaker 1: bedroom and they went inside, and sure enough, there was
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  Speaker 1: Paul's aunt laying in bed, cold to the touch, she
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: was definitely dead. Later that morning, Paul and his very
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: distraught family met with Miss Blackwood's regular doctor in the
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: living room of her house. The doctor had just finished
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: examining her body and he said that, you know, Miss
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: Blackwood really didn't have any clear signs of illness or injury.
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: But he said, you know, she's seventy, and she had
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: suffered from heart disease for the last few years, and
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: so very likely heart disease is what ultimately killed her. Now,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: for the most part, the family all reacted with a
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: mix of obviously sadness, but also like, okay, that logically
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: makes sense. And Paul himself he felt the same way.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: He's like, that's really awful. I can't believe she's gone.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: It makes sense, you know, But he also had this
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: weird feeling that he couldn't quite describe. That just he
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: felt like something's off here. He couldn't articulate it, but
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: he just immediately had this sense that that could not
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: be the story, that something else happened to his aunt.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: But Paul didn't say anything to his family. He felt
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: like it was kind of inappropriate to immediately start, you know,
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: suggesting conspiracies about what could have happened to their aunt,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: when again, logically it did make sense what the doctor
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: was saying, and so Paul just kind of kept it
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: to himself, but he didn't stop thinking about it. Once
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: the doctor left, Paul and his family decided that they
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: would all just stay in Miss Blackwood's house. You know,
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: they had a funeral to plan, They had to deal
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: with her will in her estate. I mean, there was
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: all these things that were left to do, and the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: family had already decided they were going to come here
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: and stay for a for a visit, so they had
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: already booked off this time. So the decision was they
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: would just stay and try to sort of help get
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: through this transition process. Fast forward five weeks and Paul
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and his family are still staying in Miss Blackwood's house,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: largely because it was proving to be very difficult to
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: sort of manage her estate. She was quite wealthy, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: going through her will and everything, it was just a
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: huge mess. And so they were still there and they
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: were still trying to figure things out. And by this
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: point Paul really didn't have a big role in any
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of that. He was just kind of there really to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: support his parents as they dealt with the estate. But
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Paul had kind of taken up his own mission secretly.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: He hadn't told people about his suspicions that something else
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: must have killed his aunt. He didn't want to tell
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: people that he felt like he was kind of crazy
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: for thinking it, because he had no reason to think
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: it other than a gut feeling. But he had begun
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: sort of investigating, and his investigation had led him to
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: begin sleeping in his aunt's bedroom, because he had this
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: belief that maybe his aunt's ghost would visit him in
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: her bedroom and she would tell him or signal to
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: him in some way what really happened to her. Now,
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: for the past several days and weeks that he'd been
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: in here, he had not seen his aunt's ghost, but
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: he was not about to give up, at least not yet.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: So on this particular night, this is again five weeks
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: after his aunt has passed away, Paul is in.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: His aunt's bedroom.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: He's in her bed, and he's laying there and he's
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: getting ready to fall asleep. As he's laying there, he
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: begins to hear a strange sound over to the side
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: of the room. Sounded almost like scratching noises. And the
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: room is very dark. It's late at night. There's a window,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: but there's not much light coming in from the moon.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: It's just kind of dark in this room. And he
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: opens his eyes and he rolls over and he looks
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: over in the direction of this this scratching sound, and
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: he can't see anything at first, but then as his
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: eyes kind of adjust to the darkness, he realizes he
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: sees something that he can't believe, I mean even though
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: in some ways he was hoping to see this, but
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: he sees a hand, like a disembodied hand, actually a
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: whole arm is basically reaching out of the wall in
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: his direction. And for Paul, he's obviously never seen anything
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: like this before. Then he should be terrified. I mean,
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: he's basically seeing a ghost, but he's not scared.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: He's thinking, this is it.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: My plan is working. My aunt is signaling to me.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: She's gonna tell me, in some way, shape or form
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: here what really happened to her.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: It's finally happening.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: And so, with really no fear, Paul gets out of
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: his bed, walks over to the disembodied arm reaching out
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: of the wall.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And he grabs it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: After Paul grabbed the ghost arm, screams filled the whole house,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: woke everybody up, and Paul's father came running down the hall.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: He burst into the aunt's bedroom and he.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Sees his son, and he sees what his son is grabbing,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: and he really can't even begin.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: To process it.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: It would turn out there really was an arm reaching
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: through the wall, but it wasn't a ghost arm. It
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: was not you know, miss Blackwood's ghost coming back to
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: tell Paul about what happened to her. But this arm
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: did absolutely have something to do with what killed Miss Blackwood,
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: because she did not die of heart disease. When Miss
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Blackwood was still alive, the person who lived in the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: room next to her where they slept, they drilled a
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: hole in the wall big enough for their arm to
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: fit through, and they reached through that hole at night
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: while Miss Blackwood was asleep, and they poured poison into
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: the water she kept by her bedside. They poisoned her
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: to death, and then after she died from being poisoned,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you know, it was determined that she had died from
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: cardiac arrest, and pretty much everybody accepted that except for Paul.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: The killer was aware.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Even though Paul was keeping it to himself that he
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: was on to something. He was sleeping in Miss Blackwood's bedroom.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: It seemed like he was trying to figure out if
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: there was more to the story than what everybody else
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: seemed to believe, which was heart disease. And when it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: seemed to the killer like Paul really was getting close
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: to figure in something out, the killer waited for Paul
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: to be in the same bed, and he had a
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: water next to his bed as well. The killer reached
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: through and tried to do the same thing to Paul
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: that they had done to Miss Blackwood. They tried to
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: pour poison into his drink to kill him, but Paul
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: was looking.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: For a ghost in the room.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: He heard the sound of the arm coming through and
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: he grabbed the arm, thinking it's his aunt's arm, but
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: he really actually was stopping the arm from putting poison
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: in his drink, and the screams were the sound of
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the killer realizing they've been caught, and the killer was
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: none other than Paul's own cousin, the nineteen.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Year old Madeline.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: After her parents died, Miss Blackwood took her in like
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: her own child, and because she adopted Madeline, she put Madeline.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: On her will.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: She was going to inherit Miss Blackwood's wealth, and Madeline
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: just couldn't stand waiting for Miss Blackwood to die in
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: order to get that wealth, and.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: So she decided she would kill her.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: After Madeline was caught, she quickly confessed to Paul and
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: his parents that yes, she had done it, and so
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Paul and his parents sent for the police to come
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: out here and arrest Madeline for murder and also attempted
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: murder of Paul. But before the police could even get there,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: Madeline suddenly began bleeding heavily from her mouth.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: And then she collapsed and died.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: It's not clear what actually killed her, but it's entirely possible,
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: if not likely, that she actually used the same poison
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: she had used to kill her aunt on herself to
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: avoid facing justice. Thank you so much for watching. Let
• 24:56
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• 24:59
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