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Some REALLY DARK Things Happened In December · CelinaSpookyBoo

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the haunted estate, my fellow dark mystery lovers.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Selina Myers. You probably know that. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter because today we are going to unwrap some presents
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  Speaker 1: you definitely don't want under your tree because they're dark
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  Speaker 1: and they're spooky. All right. While most of us associate
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  Speaker 1: the 25th of December with twinkling lights and warm cookies
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  Speaker 1: and cheerful carols, history has a way of painting even
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  Speaker 1: the brightest days with shadows. And today's we are going
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  Speaker 1: to look at moments when Christmas joy was transformed into
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  Speaker 1: unimaginable horror. So grab your ho-co-co and settle in because
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  Speaker 1: these stories might just make you grateful for your awkward
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  Speaker 1: family dinners. You know which uncle I'm talking about. First up,
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  Speaker 1: the Lawson family massacre. When Silent Night turned deadly. Alright,
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  Speaker 1: so it's Christmas morning, 1929. The Great Depression has its
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  Speaker 1: grip on America. But in rural North Carolina, the Lawson
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  Speaker 1: family is getting ready for their holiday celebrations. The smell
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  Speaker 1: of fresh-baked pie wafts through their modest farmhouse. Seven children
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  Speaker 1: are buzzing with excitement, wondering what small gifts their parents
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  Speaker 1: might have managed to get them, despite all the hard times.
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  Speaker 1: But Charles Lawson had different plans for his family that
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  Speaker 1: Christmas morning. And let me tell you, they didn't involve
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  Speaker 1: presents or turkey dinner. No, because this is the Honda State,
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  Speaker 1: of course. Now, what makes this story extra creepy is
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  Speaker 1: what happened the day before the massacre, just days earlier.
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  Speaker 1: Charles took his entire family into town to get their
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  Speaker 1: photographs taken. something that poor farming families rarely did in
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  Speaker 1: those days. He bought everyone new clothes, made sure they
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  Speaker 1: looked their absolute best. It was like he wanted one
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  Speaker 1: perfect family moment frozen in time before he destroyed everything.
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  Speaker 1: On Christmas Day, Charles sent his eldest son, Arthur, on
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  Speaker 1: an errand to town. The simple act saved Arthur's life,
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  Speaker 1: but condemned him to a lifetime of wondering why his
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  Speaker 1: father spared him alone. While Arthur was gone, Charles began
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  Speaker 1: his methodical rampage. First were his daughters, Carrie and Maybel,
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  Speaker 1: who he shot as they left the house to visit
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  Speaker 1: their uncle's place. Then he turned his attention to his wife, Fanny,
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  Speaker 1: and their youngest daughter, Mary Lou, just four months old.
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  Speaker 1: The baby, well, I'll spare you those details. His sons,
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  Speaker 1: James and Raymond, tried to run, but they never stood
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  Speaker 1: a chance. Finally, little Marie, age 17, attempted to hide
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  Speaker 1: in the tobacco barn, but Charles did find her too.
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  Speaker 1: Here's what makes it even more disturbing. After killing his
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  Speaker 1: whole family, Charles didn't just end things quickly. No, he
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  Speaker 1: took time to position each body, crossing their arms over
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  Speaker 1: their chests and placing rocks under their heads like macabre
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  Speaker 1: little pillows. He even made sure to leave tobacco under
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  Speaker 1: his wife's head, a gruesome parody of thoughtfulness. When Charles
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  Speaker 1: walked into the woods, he sat down against a tree
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  Speaker 1: and decided to check out. When his body was found,
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  Speaker 1: they discovered that he had left a note in his
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  Speaker 1: pocket that read simply, goodbye everybody. Not exactly what you
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  Speaker 1: would call closure. But wait, because this story has an
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  Speaker 1: extra twist that makes it even more unsettling. Charles' brother, Marion, yes,
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  Speaker 1: the uncle, whose house these girls were heading to when
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  Speaker 1: they were saw an opportunity in this tragedy. Within days
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  Speaker 1: of the funerals, he opened up the house as a
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  Speaker 1: murder house and a tourist attraction. That's right, he charged
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  Speaker 1: people 25 cents to walk through the home where his
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  Speaker 1: own relatives had been slaughtered. People came from miles around
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  Speaker 1: to gawk at the bullet holes and the bloodstains. The
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  Speaker 1: grand finale of the tour, a display of the actual
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  Speaker 1: Christmas gifts the children never got to open. Some say
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  Speaker 1: it was just Marion trying to make ends meet during
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  Speaker 1: the Depression. Others call it the ultimate betrayal. Either way,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna win. Next up, we have the Christmas Eve
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  Speaker 1: Express to nowhere, the Tangiwahi disaster. Let's hop aboard another
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  Speaker 1: dark Christmas story, this time in New Zealand, 1953. The
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  Speaker 1: night before Christmas, 285 passengers boarded the overnight express train
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  Speaker 1: from Wellington to Auckland. They were heading home to their families,
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  Speaker 1: probably dreaming of tomorrow's festivities. Some had wrapped presents tucked
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  Speaker 1: away in their luggage. Others might have been mentally rehearsing
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  Speaker 1: Christmas carols or planning their holiday feasts. But Mother Nature
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  Speaker 1: had other plans, and they were involved in a volcano
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  Speaker 1: named Ruha... Ruha... Yeah, a volcano, yep. See, none of
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  Speaker 1: those passengers knew what was up in the mountains. A
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  Speaker 1: natural dam holding back a volcanic lake that had just burst.
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  Speaker 1: A massive wall of water and mud and volcanic debris
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  Speaker 1: was racing down the river, headed straight for the railway bridge,
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  Speaker 1: the same bridge that their train was about to cross.
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  Speaker 1: A local named Sarah Ellis... noticed something was wrong. He
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  Speaker 1: tried to warn the train, running along the tracks, waving
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  Speaker 1: a torch. The driver saw him and hit the brakes.
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  Speaker 1: But physics isn't kind when you've got tons of steel
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  Speaker 1: moving at a high speed, and the train couldn't stop
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  Speaker 1: in time. As the engine rolled onto the bridge, the structure,
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  Speaker 1: already weakened by the volcano, by the lahar, that is
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  Speaker 1: the technical term for volcanic mudflow, in case you were wondering,
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  Speaker 1: gave way. What followed was nothing short of a nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: Five second-class carriages and one first-class carriage plunged into the
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  Speaker 1: raging torrent below. Here's where the story gets particularly heart-wrenching.
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  Speaker 1: Among the passengers were a newly engaged couple, Narissa Lockett
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  Speaker 1: and Charles Jennings. As their carriage filled with water, Charles
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  Speaker 1: managed to break a window. He got Narissa out first,
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  Speaker 1: then followed. They clung to each other in the violent current,
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  Speaker 1: but eventually the force of the water tore them apart.
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  Speaker 1: Charles survived. Narissa became one of the 20 passengers whose
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  Speaker 1: bodies were never found. A total of 151 people lost
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  Speaker 1: their lives that night. Think about that. 151 empty chairs
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  Speaker 1: at Christmas tables the next day. 151 sets of presents
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  Speaker 1: that would never be opened. 151 families whose holidays would
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  Speaker 1: forever be marked by their absence instead of joy. The
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  Speaker 1: rescue effort was remarkable, though. Local farmers formed human chains
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  Speaker 1: in the rushing water to pull out survivors. The nearby
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  Speaker 1: army camp sent every available soldier to help. Even the
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  Speaker 1: injured passengers who managed to escape helped pull others from
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  Speaker 1: the water. It was a showcase of human courage in
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  Speaker 1: the face of disaster. Boo. Okay, let's get darker. The
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  Speaker 1: Christmas Beauty Queen, the JonBenet Ramsey mystery. One that is
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  Speaker 1: always popular in the media. Of all our Christmas horror stories,
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  Speaker 1: the next one might be the most infamous. The case
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  Speaker 1: that shook America and remains unsolved to this day. The
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  Speaker 1: murder of JonBenet Ramsey. It's Boulder, Colorado, 1996. The Ramsey
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  Speaker 1: house stands decorated for Christmas, twinkling lights reflecting on the
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  Speaker 1: snow outside. Inside, six-year-old JonBenet, a tiny beauty queen with
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  Speaker 1: a million-dollar smile, goes to bed excited for Santa's arrival.
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  Speaker 1: But the next evening, she'd become the center of America's
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  Speaker 1: most haunting Christmas mystery. The morning started normally enough. Presents
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  Speaker 1: were under the tree, stockings were filled. But when Patsy Ramsey,
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  Speaker 1: JonBenet's mother, found something that didn't belong among the Christmas
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  Speaker 1: cards and wrapping paper, a ransom note. And what a
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  Speaker 1: note it was. Three pages long. Demanding $ 118, 000 for the
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  Speaker 1: safe return of JonBenet. The amount wasn't random. It matched
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  Speaker 1: Jon Ramsey's recent bonus from work. Can you imagine getting
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  Speaker 1: a $ 118, 000 bonus at Christmas? Right. Damn. Now let's talk
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  Speaker 1: about this ransom note for a minute. Because it's one
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  Speaker 1: of the weirdest elements of this case. Who writes a
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  Speaker 1: three-page ransom note? The writer quoted movies, used odd phrases,
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  Speaker 1: and seemed to have taken their time writing it. They
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  Speaker 1: even started over once. Police found a practice draft. Think
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  Speaker 1: about that. Someone broke into a house, took the time
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  Speaker 1: to draft and redraft a ransom note. Make it make sense, yo.
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  Speaker 1: Eight hours after finding the note, John Ramsey made a
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  Speaker 1: discovery in the basement that would haunt him forever. There
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  Speaker 1: was JonBenet under a white blanket. She'd been gagged with
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  Speaker 1: duct tape. A rope around her neck. Her wrists were bound,
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  Speaker 1: but loosely, as if staged. The world of pageants and
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  Speaker 1: Christmas presents had given way to every parent's worst nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: The investigation that followed was a mess from start to finish.
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  Speaker 1: The crime scene? Contaminated. The house? Left unsecured. The evidence? Mishandled.
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  Speaker 1: Police focused on the parents. Statistically, it made sense. But
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  Speaker 1: the DNA found on JonBenet didn't match anyone in the family.
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  Speaker 1: To this day, it hasn't matched anyone in any database. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's interesting. I didn't know that. The murder spawned countless theories.
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  Speaker 1: Was it an intruder? A family friend? Was it somebody
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  Speaker 1: jealous of the Ramseys' wealth? Did the pageant circus attract
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  Speaker 1: the wrong kind of attention? The questions pile up like
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  Speaker 1: unwanted Christmas presents, but answers remain as elusive as Santa himself.
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  Speaker 1: Next up, we have the Christmas Eve hijacking when terror
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  Speaker 1: took flight. Let's shift our sleigh over to Algeria. Christmas Eve, 1994.
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  Speaker 1: Air France flight 8969. It sits on the tarmac packed
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  Speaker 1: with 220 passengers, ready to head home for the holidays.
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  Speaker 1: But four men had a different plan for this Christmas flight,
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't involve delivering presents. Armed with AK-47s, dynamite,
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  Speaker 1: and homemade grenades, members of a militant Islamic group stormed
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  Speaker 1: the plane. Now, hijackings weren't uncommon in Algeria, but at
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  Speaker 1: the time, this was different. These men weren't interested in
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  Speaker 1: negotiations or demands. They had one simple, terrifying plan. Turn
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  Speaker 1: that plane into a flying bomb and crash it into
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  Speaker 1: the Eiffel Tower. Does this sound familiar? It should. This
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  Speaker 1: was like a dress rehearsal for 9-11 seven years early.
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  Speaker 1: The hijackers started their reign of terror by checking passports.
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  Speaker 1: They were looking for French citizens. And when they found three,
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  Speaker 1: what followed was a gross parody of Christmas selection. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of choosing presents, they chose victims. Three passengers were executed,
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  Speaker 1: their bodies dumped on the tarmac and discarded like wrapping paper.
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  Speaker 1: For two days, the plane sat on that Algerian runway.
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  Speaker 1: The temperature inside scored to unbelievable levels. Passengers weren't allowed
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  Speaker 1: to move. Some passed out from heat and fear. The
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  Speaker 1: hijackers walked the aisles, reciting prayers and making speeches about
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  Speaker 1: their cause. All the while, explosives sat in their jackets,
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  Speaker 1: ready to turn the whole plane into a fireball. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: the hijackers demanded the plane fly to France. They thought
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  Speaker 1: they'd gotten their Christmas wish. What they didn't know is
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  Speaker 1: that French authorities had figured out their plan. When the
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  Speaker 1: plane landed to refuel, The French Special Forces launched Operation Valentine.
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  Speaker 1: Elite commandos scaling a passenger jet while sharpshooters take position.
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  Speaker 1: The assault lasted 17 minutes. 17 minutes of gunfire, explosions,
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  Speaker 1: and chaos. In the end, all four hijackers were dead.
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  Speaker 1: Not a single passenger or crew member was lost in
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  Speaker 1: the raid. It's a Christmas miracle wrapped in gunpowder and courage.
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  Speaker 1: That's insane. Wild. Yeah. The Fatal Alarm. The Italian Hall disaster.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's travel back to 1913 to a place called Colm, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: It's Christmas Eve and the copper miners are on strike.
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  Speaker 1: Times are hard, but the community has pulled together to
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  Speaker 1: give their children a proper Christmas celebration in the Italian Hall.
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  Speaker 1: The hall is packed with hundreds of people, striking miners,
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  Speaker 1: their wives, and about 175 children. There is a Christmas tree,
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  Speaker 1: presents for their kids, and for a few hours, Everyone
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  Speaker 1: can forget about the strike and their empty stomachs. The
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  Speaker 1: children have just started receiving their gifts when somebody, we
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  Speaker 1: still don't know who, shouted those fatal words. Fire! There
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  Speaker 1: was no fire. Let me repeat that. There was no fire.
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  Speaker 1: But in that crowded hall, with one narrow staircase leading
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  Speaker 1: to the exit, truth didn't matter. Panic did. What followed
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  Speaker 1: was a nightmare in slow motion. People rushed for the stairs.
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  Speaker 1: The only way out, someone tripped. It was the crush
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  Speaker 1: of bodies. People fell on top of each other. The
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  Speaker 1: stairway became a death trap. Those at the bottom were
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  Speaker 1: crushed by the weight of those above. Those at the
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  Speaker 1: top were pushed forward by the crowd behind them. The
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  Speaker 1: cruel irony? The doors at the bottom of the stairs
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  Speaker 1: opened inward. The weight of the fallen bodies made it
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  Speaker 1: impossible to open. The very doors meant to help people
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  Speaker 1: escape became their prison. When it was over, 73 people
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  Speaker 1: lay dead on those stairs. 59 of them were children.
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  Speaker 1: Let that sink in. 59 people who had been waiting
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  Speaker 1: for Santa just moments before. Christmas presents lay scattered unclaimed
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  Speaker 1: on the hall above. Parents who'd gone to give their
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  Speaker 1: children a happy Christmas instead had to identify their broken bodies.
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  Speaker 1: Some witnesses claimed that they saw a man wearing a
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  Speaker 1: button from the Anti-Union Citizens Alliance running away after shouting fire.
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  Speaker 1: Others said it was just a tragic accident. The truth
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  Speaker 1: died on those stairs with those victims. So why tell
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  Speaker 1: these stories? Why darken the holiday season with tales of
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  Speaker 1: such horror? Well, guys, there's a method to this macabre madness. First,
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  Speaker 1: these events remind us that tragedy doesn't check the calendar.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't care if it's Christmas or any other day.
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  Speaker 1: The universe doesn't schedule its disasters around celebrations. But it's
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  Speaker 1: precisely the contrast between the joy we associate with Christmas
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  Speaker 1: and the darkness of these events that makes them so powerful,
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  Speaker 1: so memorable. Second, these stories show us something about human nature. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: they show us humanity at its worst, the loss and murders.
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  Speaker 1: But they also show us humanity at its best. the
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  Speaker 1: rescue workers who helped with the train accident, or the
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  Speaker 1: French commandos who helped save Flight 8969. And finally, these
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  Speaker 1: stories serve as reminders. Reminders that life is precious and unpredictable.
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  Speaker 1: That the presence under our trees and the food on
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  Speaker 1: our tables isn't guaranteed. that the people around us might
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  Speaker 1: not be here next Christmas. But guys, don't let these
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  Speaker 1: tales ruin your holiday spirit. Instead, let them deepen your
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  Speaker 1: appreciation for what you have. Let them remind you to
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  Speaker 1: hug your loved ones a little tighter, to make that
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  Speaker 1: phone call that you've been putting off, to mend that
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  Speaker 1: family rift that's been going on for too long. Because
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  Speaker 1: here's the thing about Christmas. It's not really about the
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  Speaker 1: presents or the decorations or the perfect dinner. It's about connection.
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  Speaker 1: It's about being there for each other. It's about creating
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  Speaker 1: moments that become memories. And maybe, just maybe, understanding these
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  Speaker 1: darker Christmas stories can help us appreciate the light from
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  Speaker 1: our own lives a little bit more. Before I go,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank you all for taking this journey
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  Speaker 1: through the shadows of Christmas past with me. And if
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  Speaker 1: you found this episode interesting, or should I say deeply
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  Speaker 1: disturbing and fascinating... Don't forget to like and subscribe and
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  Speaker 1: appreciates the darker side of history. And don't forget to
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  Speaker 1: leave a comment telling me about your most memorable Christmas experience.
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  Speaker 1: Or most miserable. As I was gonna say, good or bad.
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  Speaker 1: Good or bad. But just maybe not as bad as
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  Speaker 1: the ones that I have said today. So until next time,
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  Speaker 1: I am Selina Myers. And reminding you that scary stories
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  Speaker 1: are fun and I love you. And don't hurt anybody.
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  Speaker 1: Be a good person. 2025's almost here. I'm out, Boo Crew. Bye!
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  Speaker 1: broke that, I wouldn't be good for 2025.