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Top 3 places you CAN'T GO & people who went anyways... Part 1 · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: I think we all tend to believe that everywhere in
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  Speaker 1: the world is accessible if I just had the time,
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  Speaker 1: the money, or maybe both. But today I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: shatter that illusion and share with you a top three
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  Speaker 1: list of places you can't go, no matter.
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  Speaker 2: How much time or money you may have.
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  Speaker 1: And for each of these locations, I'll share with you
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  Speaker 1: an instance of people going there anyways and what happened
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  Speaker 1: to them spoiler, it didn't end well. But before we
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  Speaker 1: get into today's top three list, if you're a fan
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  Speaker 1: let's get into today's stories. There is this tiny, lush,
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  Speaker 1: heavily forested, beautiful island ninety three miles off the coast
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  Speaker 1: of Brazil that, no matter how beautiful it looks, no
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  Speaker 1: one will go to this island. In fact, you're not
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  Speaker 1: allowed to go to it because the Brazilian navy has
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  Speaker 1: forbid it. So the legend of this island really began
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  Speaker 1: in the early nineteen hundreds when a local fisherman was
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  Speaker 1: off the coast of the island and saw right on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the forest were these beautiful banana trees
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  Speaker 1: with all these bananas that were ripe and ready to
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  Speaker 1: be picked. And he thought, I can easily pull my
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  Speaker 1: boat over to those rocks over there, hop out, grab
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  Speaker 1: some bananas and bring them home. No problem, they'll take me,
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  Speaker 1: you know, ten minutes to do. And so he pulls
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  Speaker 1: over by himself to get these bananas. He anchors his boat,
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  Speaker 1: he walks up the beach, he climbs up the tree,
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  Speaker 1: and he starts hacking down some bananas. And while he's
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  Speaker 1: up there, he suddenly feels a sharp pain on his
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  Speaker 1: rib cage and he falls out of the tree. And
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  Speaker 1: he looks down and he's bleeding out of his rib
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  Speaker 1: cage because he can see it on his shirt, his
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  Speaker 1: blood on his shirt. Was there a branch that japped
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  Speaker 1: me in the s Like?
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  Speaker 2: What was that?
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  Speaker 1: And he's alone, he's ninety three miles from the mainland,
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  Speaker 1: and so in a panic, he ditches the bananas, he
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  Speaker 1: runs to his boat, gets it unanchored, and starts making
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  Speaker 1: his way back to the mainland, but on the trek
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  Speaker 1: back he passes out in the boat. Later that day,
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  Speaker 1: another group of fishermen see this boat kind of drifting
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  Speaker 1: around near some rocks, and it looks like something's wrong,
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  Speaker 1: so they make their way over to it, and there's
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  Speaker 1: this fisherman who went to get the bananas, but he's
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  Speaker 1: lying on his back.
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  Speaker 2: He's clearly dead, and he's in a pool of his
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  Speaker 2: own blood.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty years after this incident, there was a lighthouse keeper
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  Speaker 1: that was assigned to work on this island and he
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  Speaker 1: brought his family with him. They were staying in the
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  Speaker 1: main house of the lighthouse, and it was going fine
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  Speaker 1: for the first couple of days they were there, but
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  Speaker 1: at some point captains of vessels that would drive past
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  Speaker 1: this island and relied on that lighthouse noticed that the
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  Speaker 1: light wasn't on, and so they reported it to the
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  Speaker 1: mainland and a search party was sent out to check
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  Speaker 1: on the lighthouse keeper and his family to make sure
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  Speaker 1: that they had all their supplies and that they were okay.
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  Speaker 1: When they get lighthouse, they find the entire family is dead.
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  Speaker 1: In their bed, and the only clue they had were
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  Speaker 1: these puncture marks all over the bodies of these deceased
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  Speaker 1: lighthouse keepers and an open window.
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  Speaker 2: So what killed these people that went to this island?
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  Speaker 1: Technically they died from a poison that literally melts your
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  Speaker 1: organs within sixty minutes.
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  Speaker 2: Of coming in contact with it.
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  Speaker 1: But that poison comes from a very famous venomous snake
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  Speaker 1: called the golden lancehead viper that only exists on this island.
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  Speaker 1: They exist nowhere else in the world, and so this
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  Speaker 1: island has been dubbed snake Island. And since nobody goes
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  Speaker 1: to this island, the lancehead viper population has exploded. They
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  Speaker 1: are thriving on this island. In fact, researchers say that
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  Speaker 1: there's at least three thousand of these venomous snakes that
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  Speaker 1: live on this island, and for every one square meter
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  Speaker 1: of the island there is a snake, which means if
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  Speaker 1: you're on this island, you are always within one meter
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  Speaker 1: of something that can kill you. And these snakes aren't
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  Speaker 1: just on the ground either, because their primary food source
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  Speaker 1: are birds, and so the snakes have begun to live
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  Speaker 1: in the trees and catch birds that land in the trees,
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  Speaker 1: meaning if you happen to be walking on this densely
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  Speaker 1: forested island, you'd be surrounded almost three hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: degrees by these wickedly venomous snakes that if you are bit,
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  Speaker 1: you have sixty.
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  Speaker 2: Minutes to get the antidote. If you don't, you're doomed.
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  Speaker 2: One hundred percent of the time.
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  Speaker 1: Nowadays, the only people that go to this island are
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  Speaker 1: the navy who replace the batteries in the lighthouse, which
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  Speaker 1: is now automated. Because it's too dangerous to be there.
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  Speaker 1: They go once a year to replace those batteries. Researchers
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  Speaker 1: occasionally go there, and you have poachers that go to
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  Speaker 1: try to catch some of these snakes because they're so
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  Speaker 1: rare they can sell on the black market for ten
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  Speaker 1: to thirty thousand US dollars. But many of these poachers
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  Speaker 1: that manage to sneak onto the island just get bit
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  Speaker 1: by these five person.
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  Speaker 2: Die, So there you go, karma.
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  Speaker 1: In early nineteen forty five, during World War Two, the
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  Speaker 1: British decided they wanted to take back Ramri Island from
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese. Ramri Island is a fairly large, totally flat island,
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  Speaker 1: off the coast of Burma. That was a great staging
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  Speaker 1: location to fly air campaigns onto the mainland.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a great air base.
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  Speaker 1: And the British had actually owned this island, but the
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  Speaker 1: Japanese had taken it back from them in nineteen forty two,
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  Speaker 1: and so here they are in nineteen forty five looking
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  Speaker 1: to take it back. So on January twenty first, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty five, British and Indian infantry stormed the beaches of
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  Speaker 1: Ramri to try to take it back. As soon as
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  Speaker 1: they land, they have all this naval artillery support just
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  Speaker 1: bombing the crap out of this air base, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just a matter of time before they overwhelmed the
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  Speaker 1: remaining Japanese. But the Japanese do not want to surrender,
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  Speaker 1: and instead they give up the air base that they
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  Speaker 1: were on, So the British take that back and the
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  Speaker 1: remaining thousand Japanese soldiers started retreating to the opposite end
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  Speaker 1: of the island to where there was a much larger
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  Speaker 1: battalion of Japanese.
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  Speaker 2: Soul that they could meet up with.
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  Speaker 1: But the only issue with this particular retreat was they
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  Speaker 1: would have to go through ten miles of Mangrove swamp
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  Speaker 1: where there's poisonous spiders and insects and deep mud making
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  Speaker 1: it almost impossible to move. But they're determined and they
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  Speaker 1: head off into the swamp. But what the Japanese were
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  Speaker 1: not ready for is what Ramrie Island is famous for,
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  Speaker 1: a creature that makes poisonous snakes and spiders and insects
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  Speaker 1: look like child's play, and they were walking directly into
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  Speaker 1: its den. The British troops decided, we're not going to
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  Speaker 1: go chasing them into the swamp, and instead what they
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  Speaker 1: did is they set up boats blocking positions outside of
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  Speaker 1: the swamp. If any of the Japanese tried to escape,
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  Speaker 1: they would be their waiting and so the only way
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese could get out of there would be to
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  Speaker 1: go to the absolute other end, ten miles away where
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  Speaker 1: their Japanese counterparts were. So that night is the British
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  Speaker 1: are just kind of hanging out in their boats, staring
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  Speaker 1: at the swamp. They start hearing screams coming from east
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  Speaker 1: side of the swamp into Japanese soldiers. Was putting your
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  Speaker 1: gunfire and then silence, and then it would start all
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  Speaker 1: over again. All over this huge swamp was just screams, gunfire, silence, screams, gunfire, silence,
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  Speaker 1: and the British.
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  Speaker 2: Are watching this like do we have troops in there?
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  Speaker 2: What's going on in there? What was going on in there?
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  Speaker 1: Is defined by the Guinness Book of World Records as
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  Speaker 1: the largest massacre of humans caused by animals, and not
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  Speaker 1: just any animal, saltwater crocodiles. These massive man eating crocodiles
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  Speaker 1: can weigh up to one thousand kilograms or twenty two
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  Speaker 1: hundred pounds. They can grow to be seven meters in
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  Speaker 1: length or about twenty three feet in length, and National
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  Speaker 1: Geographic has labeled these crocodiles as the most likely to
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  Speaker 1: eat a human of all animals. And Rambrie Island has
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  Speaker 1: the largest population of saltwater crocodiles in the world, and
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  Speaker 1: they all lived inside of the swamp that the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: had gone into. A lot of them were bleeding from
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  Speaker 1: the battle they were in, and so they were literally
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  Speaker 1: alert hing hundreds of saltwater crocodiles of their location. Saltwater
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  Speaker 1: crocodiles are notorious night hunters, so what probably happened is
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  Speaker 1: the Japanese got inside of this mangrove. The crocodiles were
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  Speaker 1: immediately aware of their presence, but they waited until nighttime
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  Speaker 1: before they started having a feeding frenzy. And over the
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  Speaker 1: course of the night a number of Japanese soldiers had
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  Speaker 1: jumped out the sides of the swamp, exposing themselves to
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  Speaker 1: the British, and so about twenty of them were captured.
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  Speaker 1: And they said that they were completely surrounded by these crocodiles,
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  Speaker 1: that everywhere you looked there were growling, huge crocodiles eating
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  Speaker 1: one person, and as soon as they were done, they
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  Speaker 1: would just charge after you and eat you. And at
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  Speaker 1: the end of their retreat and the Japanese did get
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  Speaker 1: to the other side of the swamp, only five hundred
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  Speaker 1: of the one thousand made it out.
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  Speaker 2: The other side.
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  Speaker 1: And so to this day people stay far away from
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  Speaker 1: Ramrie Island because there are so many of these man
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  Speaker 1: eating saltwater crocodiles that have no issue ripping you to shreds.
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  Speaker 1: On November fourteenth, twenty eighteen, John Chow hired two fishermen
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  Speaker 1: to take him out to this little island in the
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  Speaker 1: Indian Ocean.
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  Speaker 2: The fishermen were.
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  Speaker 1: Not excited about this, not only because it was illegal
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  Speaker 1: to take him out to the island, but because the
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  Speaker 1: last time some fishermen had gone to this island, they
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  Speaker 1: had both died.
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  Speaker 2: But the fishermen needed the money.
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  Speaker 1: And so they went with John, and they drove under
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  Speaker 1: the cover of darkness to this island and they anchored
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  Speaker 1: a little ways offshore. The next morning, when the sun
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  Speaker 1: came up, John asked the fishermen to take him in
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  Speaker 1: a little bit closer, but the fisherman refused, so John
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  Speaker 1: puts a kayak in the water and he begins paddling
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  Speaker 1: into this island, and as he gets close to the
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  Speaker 1: actual beach, he sees someone come out of the forest
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  Speaker 1: who has their face painted yellow, and they're screeching at
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  Speaker 1: the top of their lungs, and John yells out that
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  Speaker 1: he's not threatening them, he just wants to come ashore
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  Speaker 1: and talk to them. And then a wave of people
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  Speaker 1: with yellow painted faces come charging out of the woodline
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  Speaker 1: and start firing arrows in his direction, so John, in
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  Speaker 1: a panic, turns around and paddles right back out to
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  Speaker 1: the fishing boat. Later that day, John tries to make
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  Speaker 1: another attempt at landing on this island and communicating with
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  Speaker 1: the people that live there, so he takes his kayak
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  Speaker 1: and he goes down a little bit farther away from
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  Speaker 1: where those people had emerged from the tree line earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the day and shot him with arrows. He figured
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  Speaker 1: he was a little bit farther out of arrow range
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  Speaker 1: this way, he lands his kayak. He gets out, and
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  Speaker 1: the same group of people come out farther down the
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  Speaker 1: beach where they had been before. They see John. They
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  Speaker 1: all start looking at each other and they start screeching
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  Speaker 1: and running down the beach towards John. John stands there
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  Speaker 1: until they come all the way up to him. They
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  Speaker 1: don't shoot him with arrows, but they take his kayak,
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  Speaker 1: and they don't really know what to make of him.
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  Speaker 1: They're staring at him, and they start speaking to each
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  Speaker 1: other in a language John doesn't understand. And then at
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  Speaker 1: some point a child pulls his bow and arrow out
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  Speaker 1: and fires a boat directly at John, and he was
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  Speaker 1: holding a bible, and he stopped the arrow with his bible.
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  Speaker 2: And at that point.
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  Speaker 1: John is like, okay, I gotta go, and he jumps
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  Speaker 1: in the water and without a kayak, has to swim
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  Speaker 1: a mile to get back to the fishing boat.
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  Speaker 2: The whole time these people.
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  Speaker 1: Are firing arrows arbitrarily in his direction and as he
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  Speaker 1: swim him back out to the boat. And so the
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  Speaker 1: next day, on v Umber sixteenth, he told the fishermen
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  Speaker 1: he wanted them to drop him off and he would
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  Speaker 1: swim in, and he wanted them to leave and be
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  Speaker 1: completely out of sight.
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  Speaker 2: The fishermen did not want to do this, but John
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  Speaker 2: reassured them that he was going to be just fine.
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  Speaker 1: He knew what he was doing, and so the fishermen
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  Speaker 1: drop him off and they leave. The next day, when
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  Speaker 1: the fishermen come back to collect John, they see these
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  Speaker 1: people with painted yellow faces out on the beach dragging
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  Speaker 1: his body by a rope. No one knows exactly what
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  Speaker 1: happened to John, how they killed him. There's lots of
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  Speaker 1: speculation about how it went down, but it's too dangerous
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  Speaker 1: for anyone to go back and retrieve his body, and
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  Speaker 1: so his body remains at North Sentinel Island. The few
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  Speaker 1: hundred people that live on North Sentinel Island that were
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  Speaker 1: responsible for killing John Chow they referred to as the
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  Speaker 1: Sentinel Eies, and they are unbelievably primitive. They are completely
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  Speaker 1: cut off from the modern world. They live a hunter
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  Speaker 1: gatherer lifestyle. They have no conception of agriculture. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: even discovered fire yet. They literally have to wait for
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  Speaker 1: lightning to strike and then run and collect.
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  Speaker 2: The embers and try to keep the embers alive.
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  Speaker 1: Researchers believe that the Sentinalese are direct descendants from the
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  Speaker 1: earliest human ancestors.
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  Speaker 2: That came out of Africa.
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  Speaker 1: And as much as we'd like to learn more about
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  Speaker 1: the Sentinalese, we probably won't because they aggressively resist outside contact.
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  Speaker 1: They won't even let the other similarly primitive neighboring island
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  Speaker 1: tribes to come on their island. The Sentinalese want only
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  Speaker 1: Sentinalese on that island.
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  Speaker 2: No one else can be there.
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  Speaker 1: If you're not a Sentinalese and you try to go
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  Speaker 1: to their island, they'll just kill you. So let me
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  Speaker 1: let me know if you could go to any of
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  Speaker 1: these three locations, which one would it be and why.
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