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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, I'm going to tell you three stories about places
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- 0:47Speaker 1: Around four forty five pm on February eleventh, nineteen ninety five,
- 0:52Speaker 1: a fifty year old man named Eric Toltt sat in
- 0:54Speaker 1: his office in the furniture factory that he owned in Northumberland,
- 0:58Speaker 1: which is a pretty rural country in northern England. From
- 1:01Speaker 1: inside his office, all Eric could hear outside was the
- 1:04Speaker 1: thumping of the rain on the roof. There was this
- 1:06Speaker 1: low pressure system in the area which was causing a
- 1:09Speaker 1: really intense thunderstorm. In fact, the storm was so bad
- 1:13Speaker 1: that Eric had actually decided to close the factory for
- 1:15Speaker 1: the day so all his employees could stay home during
- 1:18Speaker 1: the storm, and Eric was glad that he could actually
- 1:20Speaker 1: afford to give his employees a day off like this,
- 1:23Speaker 1: because it had not always been that way. He had
- 1:25Speaker 1: bought this factory sixteen years earlier, and it had taken
- 1:28Speaker 1: all of his savings and scraping together all of his
- 1:31Speaker 1: money to actually make the investment. And then after he
- 1:34Speaker 1: purchased the factory, it required a huge renovation to make
- 1:38Speaker 1: it ready to be a furniture factory that he could
- 1:40Speaker 1: actually sell products out of.
- 1:42Speaker 2: But now, after sixteen years of hard work.
- 1:45Speaker 1: You know, his business was quite successful, and so a
- 1:47Speaker 1: day like today was no big deal. You know, he
- 1:50Speaker 1: wasn't all that concerned about the lost profits that day. Instead,
- 1:53Speaker 1: he was just using the time to catch up on
- 1:55Speaker 1: some admin work and also spend some time with his family.
- 1:58Speaker 2: Eric's girlfriend, whose name was Leslie.
- 2:00Speaker 1: Was at the factory with him, hanging out in the
- 2:02Speaker 1: office as well, and also Eric's brother, whose name was Donald,
- 2:06Speaker 1: had taken Leslie's eight year old son over to the
- 2:08Speaker 1: factory's attached garage to go play. But as Eric, you know,
- 2:12Speaker 1: shuffled through his paperwork and did a few things, and
- 2:15Speaker 1: Leslie was over at the window looking outside Suddenly the
- 2:18Speaker 1: door to his office swung open, and it was Leslie's
- 2:21Speaker 1: eight year old son who came barging in.
- 2:23Speaker 2: There's no Donald. So Eric's Brother's not with him, and the.
- 2:27Speaker 1: Son he just looked totally panicked, and he immediately said,
- 2:30Speaker 1: before you know, Eric or Leslie could ask any questions,
- 2:34Speaker 1: that Donald had collapsed over in the attached garage. Now,
- 2:38Speaker 1: initially Eric didn't really know what to make of this,
- 2:40Speaker 1: but his first thought was, you know, his brother, Donald
- 2:43Speaker 1: was sixty and he did have some health issues, and
- 2:46Speaker 1: just hearing this kid say that Donald had collapsed, it
- 2:49Speaker 1: signaled to Eric like, oh, my goodness, did Donald have
- 2:52Speaker 1: a heart attack? Or he was also thinking, you know,
- 2:55Speaker 1: this kid's only eight years old. Is he overreacting? You know,
- 2:58Speaker 1: is there actually something totally benign happening?
- 3:01Speaker 2: You know, whatever it was, Eric knew immediately.
- 3:03Speaker 1: That it was time to drop everything and run over
- 3:06Speaker 1: there and check on Donald.
- 3:08Speaker 2: And so that's what he did.
- 3:09Speaker 1: He and Leslie put their stuff down, they ran with
- 3:11Speaker 1: the eight year old, you know, threw all the way
- 3:13Speaker 1: to this attached garage, which you know, in virtue of
- 3:16Speaker 1: it being attached, they never actually went outside into the storm.
- 3:19Speaker 2: They just ran straight to this garage, and sure enough,
- 3:22Speaker 2: when they got there, there was Donald laying on the ground.
- 3:26Speaker 1: And so before Eric ran over to his brother to
- 3:28Speaker 1: assess him, to see what was going on, he just
- 3:31Speaker 1: stopped right in the doorway and turned to Leslie and
- 3:33Speaker 1: her son and he told them go back to my
- 3:36Speaker 1: office and call nine one one. I'll be in there
- 3:38Speaker 1: as soon as I can. And so they turned they left,
- 3:41Speaker 1: and then Eric he turned back around, rushed into the
- 3:44Speaker 1: garage and knelt down next to Donald, and right away
- 3:47Speaker 1: he could tell that his brother was not breathing, and
- 3:50Speaker 1: as he's sort of feeling around for some sign of life,
- 3:53Speaker 1: suddenly Eric began to feel this incredible tightness in his
- 3:56Speaker 1: chest and then before he knew it, he had blacked
- 3:59Speaker 1: out and collapsed right next to his brother. So, before
- 4:03Speaker 1: Eric purchased this factory sixteen years earlier, it had been
- 4:07Speaker 1: a factory, but it was not a furniture factory.
- 4:09Speaker 2: It was a coal factory.
- 4:11Speaker 1: And in virtue of that, there was a coal mine
- 4:14Speaker 1: that literally was attached to the structure. Basically, the coal
- 4:18Speaker 1: would come up out of the mine and be processed
- 4:21Speaker 1: inside of this big warehouse. Now, when Eric bought it,
- 4:25Speaker 1: he knew that there was this coal mine, and there
- 4:27Speaker 1: was this entrance to the coal mine connected to the structure,
- 4:31Speaker 1: but the coal mine was not in use.
- 4:33Speaker 2: The entrance to the coal mine had been completely boarded up,
- 4:35Speaker 2: and it really.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Played no role whatsoever. However, over the decade and a
- 4:40Speaker 1: half that he owned this property and didn't think at
- 4:43Speaker 1: all about that coal mine, well, over that time, this
- 4:46Speaker 1: poisonous gas called choke damp began to develop inside the mine.
- 4:51Speaker 1: And then on the day that you know, Eric and
- 4:54Speaker 1: Donald collapse inside the garage, well, it was because the
- 4:57Speaker 1: low pressure storm outside caused those poisonous gases to rise
- 5:02Speaker 1: up and seep out of the boarded up entrance, and
- 5:06Speaker 1: those poisonous choke damp gases built up inside of that
- 5:10Speaker 1: attached garage, basically making that entire room lethal to anybody
- 5:14Speaker 1: inside of there. And so unfortunately, Donald would die from
- 5:19Speaker 1: poisoning Eric when he passed out, He nearly died, but
- 5:22Speaker 1: he was pulled out in time and ultimately woke up in.
- 5:25Speaker 2: The hospital than he would survive.
- 5:39Speaker 1: At ten am on September tenth, twenty twenty two, a
- 5:43Speaker 1: sixty eight year old woman named Diana Stewart stood on
- 5:45Speaker 1: the deck of a small boat in the Pacific Ocean,
- 5:48Speaker 1: less than a mile off the eastern coast of New Zealand.
- 5:50Speaker 1: She looked out at the perfectly calm, light blue water
- 5:54Speaker 1: and she saw this albatross bird flying across the sky.
- 5:57Speaker 2: So she lifted up her camera and took a picture.
- 6:00Speaker 1: Diana was a wildlife photographer and she was also a
- 6:03Speaker 1: member of the Nature Photography Society of New Zealand. And she,
- 6:07Speaker 1: along with nine other members of this society, had chartered
- 6:11Speaker 1: this boat for a special bird watching and photography trip.
- 6:14Speaker 2: And so far, you know, the trip had lived up
- 6:16Speaker 2: to the hype.
- 6:17Speaker 1: They'd spent two hours sailing around the water photographing all
- 6:20Speaker 1: these beautiful and rare birds and other wildlife, and then
- 6:24Speaker 1: even been lucky enough to see a couple of whales,
- 6:26Speaker 1: and so this had been really a fantastic trip. Now,
- 6:29Speaker 1: at this point, the group had basically finished up their
- 6:32Speaker 1: trip and they were making their way back towards shore,
- 6:34Speaker 1: and so as they were going, Diana was keeping her
- 6:37Speaker 1: eye out for any last minute picture opportunities.
- 6:40Speaker 2: As she was looking around looking for birds, she noticed
- 6:44Speaker 2: something in the water. There was something huge moving sort
- 6:48Speaker 2: of near the boat.
- 6:49Speaker 1: It actually looked like it was moving towards the boat
- 6:51Speaker 1: sort of at an angle, and at first, you know,
- 6:53Speaker 1: she couldn't really tell what it was.
- 6:55Speaker 2: But then suddenly it came into focus that it was
- 6:57Speaker 2: an enormous whale.
- 6:59Speaker 1: This huge way is gonna swim basically right under the boat,
- 7:03Speaker 1: and so Diana she.
- 7:04Speaker 2: Pulled out her camera to take a photo.
- 7:06Speaker 1: But then the worst thing possible happened. This whale, sure
- 7:11Speaker 1: enough came towards the boat, but it didn't go under
- 7:14Speaker 1: the boat. It rammed the side of the boat, and
- 7:18Speaker 1: before Diana could do anything, suddenly the boat was lurching
- 7:21Speaker 1: onto its side and she and the rest of the
- 7:24Speaker 1: crew were thrown off the boat into the frigid water.
- 7:29Speaker 1: And the second she hit the freezing cold water, her
- 7:32Speaker 1: life jacket, which she was wearing, it automatically inflated. It
- 7:35Speaker 1: was one of those auto inflate life jackets. It inflates
- 7:38Speaker 1: and she sort of disoriented. The water was so shockingly cold.
- 7:42Speaker 1: I mean, this is a completely unbelievable situation to find
- 7:45Speaker 1: yourself in. But you know, as she surfaced and she
- 7:48Speaker 1: tried to get her bearings, she realized.
- 7:50Speaker 2: It was pitch black everywhere she looked, and it was
- 7:53Speaker 2: so loud.
- 7:54Speaker 1: She could barely hear anything but the sound of the
- 7:56Speaker 1: engine of the boat. And that's when she realized, putting
- 8:00Speaker 1: her hands up, that the boat must have capsized and
- 8:04Speaker 1: landed on top of her. But there's this little bit
- 8:07Speaker 1: of air. She's basically in an air pocket. But she
- 8:10Speaker 1: can't hear anything. She just hears the sound of this
- 8:12Speaker 1: engine and it's deafening. And so she began calling out
- 8:15Speaker 1: for help, and she tried to kind of maneuver out
- 8:17Speaker 1: from underneath, you know, this curved underside of the boat
- 8:21Speaker 1: that created this pocket, but she couldn't find her way out.
- 8:24Speaker 2: And this life jacket she had on was fully inflated.
- 8:27Speaker 1: She couldn't, you know, deflate it, and because of her buoyancy,
- 8:31Speaker 1: she couldn't swim down below and get out from under
- 8:35Speaker 1: this boat. And so she's sort of trapped underneath this boat.
- 8:38Speaker 1: It's freezing cold. The water could easily give you hypothermia
- 8:42Speaker 1: in less than thirty minutes.
- 8:44Speaker 2: You know, it's total chaos.
- 8:45Speaker 1: It's loud because of the engine, and so Diana's trying
- 8:48Speaker 1: not to panic.
- 8:49Speaker 2: And as she's sort of looking around, fumbling in the.
- 8:52Speaker 1: Dark, you know, gasping for air, she realized there were
- 8:55Speaker 1: other people also trapped underneath, and so she's grabbing at
- 8:59Speaker 1: them and trying to talk to them, and they're all panicked.
- 9:01Speaker 2: She has no idea, you know, what their state is.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Are they hurt? She doesn't know.
- 9:06Speaker 1: And so basically her only option at this point was
- 9:08Speaker 1: just a bang on the underside of this boat, just
- 9:11Speaker 1: trying to get anybody's attention outside, you know, out from
- 9:15Speaker 1: underneath where they were, to know that they were trapped
- 9:18Speaker 1: under here they needed help. And in fact, when she
- 9:21Speaker 1: began knocking, there were people outside the boat basically who
- 9:24Speaker 1: had been thrown off the boat. Everybody had been thrown
- 9:26Speaker 1: off the boat. There was eleven people. Six people were
- 9:30Speaker 1: not trapped under the boat. Five including Diana, were trapped underneath.
- 9:34Speaker 1: And so as Diana is pounding the underside of the boat,
- 9:38Speaker 1: the skipper of the boat, a guy named Mark. He
- 9:40Speaker 1: was one of the six who were outside, and he
- 9:43Speaker 1: clearly heard the knocking sound and so he's obviously in
- 9:46Speaker 1: a bad situation too, same as everybody else in the water,
- 9:49Speaker 1: but he was in a markedly better situation because he's
- 9:52Speaker 1: not trapped under.
- 9:53Speaker 2: This boat, and so he quickly understood.
- 9:55Speaker 1: That, okay, he needs to gather the six people he's with,
- 9:58Speaker 1: kind of make sure they're okay, and then figure out
- 10:00Speaker 1: how they're gonna get these people trapped under the boat
- 10:03Speaker 1: out And so his first instinct was just to bang
- 10:07Speaker 1: back on the side of the boat.
- 10:08Speaker 2: You know, to let them know, hey, we hear you.
- 10:10Speaker 2: But again, you got to picture the scene.
- 10:12Speaker 1: They are suddenly in the water because they whale flipped
- 10:16Speaker 1: their boat. They have no idea if this boat's gonna
- 10:18Speaker 1: sink any second. Here the engine is currently running, so
- 10:22Speaker 1: it's super loud, the water is freezing cold. They're out
- 10:25Speaker 1: in the middle of the ocean, like this is a
- 10:27Speaker 1: true life or death situation here.
- 10:29Speaker 2: But Mark, you know, he does his best to stay.
- 10:31Speaker 1: Calm's he's hitting the boat back to let the folks
- 10:34Speaker 1: know down underneath the boat that they're okay, we'll get
- 10:36Speaker 1: you out of there. But underneath, you know, Diana and
- 10:39Speaker 1: the others, they're starting to panic. It's hard to breathe
- 10:42Speaker 1: down there. I mean, there's really not much air. The
- 10:44Speaker 1: water's choppy because they're moving around, and so they're gulping
- 10:47Speaker 1: down water as they're doing their best to survive down there.
- 10:50Speaker 1: But they just keep hitting the boat back, saying come on,
- 10:52Speaker 1: you gotta get us out of here. But periodically they'd
- 10:54Speaker 1: still try to force themselves out from underneath, but again,
- 10:58Speaker 1: their life jacket just made it impos like they didn't
- 11:01Speaker 1: have a way out unless they ditched their life jacket.
- 11:04Speaker 2: But then that's another problem. Are you really prepared to
- 11:07Speaker 2: ditch your life jacket?
- 11:08Speaker 1: You don't know if there's obstacles when you swim out
- 11:11Speaker 1: from under.
- 11:12Speaker 2: You don't know if you're even strong enough to make
- 11:14Speaker 2: the swim.
- 11:14Speaker 1: What happens if you get stuck down below, Like there's
- 11:16Speaker 1: all these factors that sort of forced the group under
- 11:19Speaker 1: the boat to do nothing in wait and just bang
- 11:22Speaker 1: the underside of the boat. And so Mark out on
- 11:25Speaker 1: the outside with his group of six people, including himself,
- 11:28Speaker 1: They actually climbed on top of the flipped upside down boat.
- 11:32Speaker 1: The boat was big enough that he knew their extra
- 11:34Speaker 1: weight would not cause it to sink any further or
- 11:37Speaker 1: create a worse problem for those under the water. He
- 11:40Speaker 1: just knew he had to get those people out of
- 11:42Speaker 1: the water to avoid hypothermia. And then once they were
- 11:44Speaker 1: all up there, Mark found one of the people he
- 11:47Speaker 1: was with their cell phone, despite being submerged, was still
- 11:50Speaker 1: working and so Mark took the phone. He called authorities
- 11:54Speaker 1: and said, you got to send somebody out here right now.
- 11:56Speaker 1: We have people trapped in the water. We need your help.
- 12:00Speaker 1: Authorities said they would be out there as soon as possible.
- 12:03Speaker 1: And sure enough, authorities were able to get out to
- 12:06Speaker 1: the boat fairly quickly, and they were able to get
- 12:08Speaker 1: Mark and the five others that were trapped on top
- 12:11Speaker 1: of the capsized vessel to safety, and then divers were
- 12:15Speaker 1: sent into the water and they went underneath the boat
- 12:18Speaker 1: and sure enough the five others you know, Diana included,
- 12:21Speaker 1: they were all still there.
- 12:23Speaker 2: But unfortunately all five were deceased.
- 12:26Speaker 1: However, those five didn't die from hypothermia, they didn't die
- 12:31Speaker 1: from drowning. When the boat was actually hit by the
- 12:34Speaker 1: whil and capsized, it caused some of the gasoline lines
- 12:37Speaker 1: to rupture, and so there was this leak in the
- 12:40Speaker 1: gasoline lines, and when the boat was upside down, that
- 12:43Speaker 1: leak was basically pouring into the air pocket.
- 12:47Speaker 2: The dark, freezing, cold, loud, awful air pocket.
- 12:50Speaker 1: They were in was basically filling with toxic gasoline fumes,
- 12:55Speaker 1: and ultimately, seventeen minutes after capsizing, all five died from
- 13:00Speaker 1: gasoline poisoning. On Sunday, November sixth, twenty twenty two, a
- 13:15Speaker 1: twenty one year old man named ye have Genny Titov
- 13:18Speaker 1: walked out of his home in a small city called Jugulovsk,
- 13:21Speaker 1: which is in western Russia. You have Ganny got into
- 13:24Speaker 1: his car and then he drove about an hour and
- 13:26Speaker 1: a half north to this parking lot where he parked,
- 13:28Speaker 1: and then he got out and walked a few blocks
- 13:30Speaker 1: to a nearby train station. When he got there, he
- 13:34Speaker 1: asked the person behind the counter when the next train
- 13:36Speaker 1: was going to Saint Petersburg, and they told him there
- 13:38Speaker 1: was one leaving soon. He bought a ticket, and then
- 13:41Speaker 1: you have Ganny sat and he waited, and then eventually
- 13:43Speaker 1: his train rolled through.
- 13:45Speaker 2: He climbed on board, took.
- 13:46Speaker 1: His seat, and for the next forty three hours, because
- 13:51Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg was one thousand miles away, ye have Genny
- 13:55Speaker 1: just sat there basically doing nothing for nearly two days.
- 13:59Speaker 1: He anything with him, He had his wallet, that was it.
- 14:02Speaker 1: He just sat there, just waiting to get to Saint Petersburg.
- 14:06Speaker 1: When they got to Saint Petersburg late on the night
- 14:09Speaker 1: of Tuesday, November eighth, yef Genny commas can be stood up,
- 14:13Speaker 1: left the train and then somehow, possibly by another train
- 14:17Speaker 1: or by bus or on foot, or maybe somebody gave
- 14:20Speaker 1: him a ride. We don't really know, but he traveled
- 14:23Speaker 1: about fifteen miles south of that train station to Polkulva
- 14:28Speaker 1: Airport in Saint Petersburg. But when he got to the airport,
- 14:31Speaker 1: he didn't, you know, board a plane like one would
- 14:34Speaker 1: do at an airport.
- 14:35Speaker 2: Instead, he found his way to this one.
- 14:38Speaker 1: Very specific parking lot that was outside of the airport.
- 14:42Speaker 1: Several hours later, in the early morning hours of Wednesday,
- 14:45Speaker 1: November ninth, a random person was on their way through
- 14:48Speaker 1: that same parking lot on the way to the airport
- 14:51Speaker 1: when they started to hear something. It actually sounded like
- 14:54Speaker 1: muffled screaming, and at first they sort of chalked.
- 14:57Speaker 2: It up to, you know, lots of people making their
- 14:59Speaker 2: way to.
- 14:59Speaker 1: The airport, maybe it's a kid, maybe it's you know,
- 15:01Speaker 1: someone goofing around like it didn't seem serious. But as
- 15:05Speaker 1: they walked towards this open man hole cover, they realized
- 15:09Speaker 1: that the screaming they were hearing was actually coming from
- 15:12Speaker 1: inside of this hole in the ground. The screams were
- 15:16Speaker 1: from ye have Genny for reasons that we still do
- 15:19Speaker 1: not fully understand. Ye Have Genny, you know, after taking
- 15:22Speaker 1: the manhole cover off, climbed down into this manhole, so
- 15:25Speaker 1: he goes deep underground. And then when he reached the
- 15:28Speaker 1: bottom of the manhole, which was you know, relatively wide
- 15:30Speaker 1: all the way around you could stand inside of it.
- 15:33Speaker 1: There were these different offshoots of pipes that basically traveled underground,
- 15:38Speaker 1: and Ye Have Genny got down and chose one of
- 15:41Speaker 1: these pipes that was only a foot in diameter wide.
- 15:44Speaker 2: It's like this pitch black, you know, never.
- 15:46Speaker 1: Ending seeming tunnel and headfirst, he began crawling in this tunnel,
- 15:51Speaker 1: and he crawled nearly forty feet before he finally just
- 15:55Speaker 1: couldn't move any further. Keep in mind, every inch he
- 15:59Speaker 1: was taking, he's basically wedging himself deeper and deeper into
- 16:03Speaker 1: this pipe. It isn't like it was big and then
- 16:06Speaker 1: got narrow. No, it's this narrow pipe that he forced
- 16:09Speaker 1: himself through until he just could not move any farther.
- 16:13Speaker 1: And it was at that point in the wee hours
- 16:15Speaker 1: of Wednesday, November ninth, that Yevgeny began to scream, and
- 16:19Speaker 1: that's when the person found him, and authorities would go
- 16:22Speaker 1: down inside the manhole and somehow or another, after many
- 16:26Speaker 1: hours and all the specialized equipment, they actually would somewhat
- 16:29Speaker 1: unbelievably pull Yevgenny out of the pipe and he would survive.
- 16:34Speaker 1: Yevgeny would have to actually be hospitalized because he sustained
- 16:38Speaker 1: very severe skin damage from basically thrusting himself deeper and
- 16:42Speaker 1: deeper into this rusty, awful pipe. He also sustained gas
- 16:46Speaker 1: poisoning and hypothermia, but again he did live. Following this ordeal,
- 16:51Speaker 1: authorities would launch an investigation into what exactly happened here
- 16:54Speaker 1: because there was no clear reason why Yevgeny would have
- 16:59Speaker 1: traveled all this way to go into this pipe. But
- 17:02Speaker 1: when they spoke to you of Genny after he made
- 17:04Speaker 1: his recovery, you know, after he was back to normal,
- 17:07Speaker 1: he would just say he has absolutely no memory of
- 17:10Speaker 1: doing any of it. Thank you so much for watching.
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