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