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What happened on the one-way TRAIN TO HELL · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, and today I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to tell you three stories.
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  Speaker 2: That demonstrate that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, let's get into today's stories.
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  Speaker 1: On the evening of December fourteenth, twenty twenty four, a
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  Speaker 1: woman in her mid thirties named Priya got ready for
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  Speaker 1: bed inside of her home in Chehenkloh Village, which is
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  Speaker 1: a rural community in central India. Priya put in her pjs,
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  Speaker 1: brushed her teeth and then climbed into bed by herself.
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  Speaker 1: She was waiting for her husband, thirty five year old
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  Speaker 1: anand Yadav, to finish his bath and then come in
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  Speaker 1: here and join her. And as Pria laid there just
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  Speaker 1: waiting for her husband. She couldn't help but feel like
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  Speaker 1: their house was so quiet, and in many ways, the
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  Speaker 1: quiet of their house was this constant reminder of this
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  Speaker 1: really deep sadness in her life, which is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Priya really wanted a kid, but she and her husband
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  Speaker 1: had struggled to get pregnant and now you know, they're
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  Speaker 1: in their mid thirties, and it just seemed like time
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  Speaker 1: was running out, and you know, it's like all she
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  Speaker 1: wanted was a family and.
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  Speaker 2: She didn't know if she would actually have one.
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  Speaker 1: Now for Pria, though, you know, this was not some
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  Speaker 1: new revelation, like this pain had been going on for years,
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  Speaker 1: and so like she did most nights as she laid
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  Speaker 1: in bed waiting for her husband, she just did her best,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not to dwell on it and just think
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  Speaker 1: about the other things in her life that were going well,
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  Speaker 1: like you know, her relationship to her husband. You know,
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  Speaker 1: they were very happy, a very healthy couple. And so
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  Speaker 1: she's sitting there and she's thinking about that and again
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  Speaker 1: trying to be grateful. When the door opens to the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and a nd comes out.
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  Speaker 2: But he's not dressed for bed.
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  Speaker 1: He's wearing a bathrobe like he hasn't gotten dressed yet,
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  Speaker 1: and he's acting kind of funny. And Priya she's looking
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  Speaker 1: at her husband, trying to figure out, like, what is
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  Speaker 1: he doing, why isn't he dressed, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: When she suddenly realizes his face is like bright red.
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  Speaker 1: Clearly there is something wrong with her husband. And then
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  Speaker 1: before she can ask him what's going on, anand just
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  Speaker 1: turns and runs out of their bedroom, just wearing his bathrobe.
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  Speaker 1: And so Pria, you know, she gets out of bed
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  Speaker 1: and she chases after her husband, trying to make sense
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  Speaker 1: of what the.
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  Speaker 2: Heck is going on here.
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  Speaker 1: She gets outside and she sees her husband is now
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  Speaker 1: collapsed on the ground outside, and so Pria really does
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  Speaker 1: not know what's happening here. She has no sense of
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  Speaker 1: what could be wrong, and so she just runs over
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  Speaker 1: to her husband and she rolls him over and she's
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  Speaker 1: shaken him to like get him to talk to her,
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  Speaker 1: but all she sees is his face is still this
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  Speaker 1: beat red color and it's almost like he's passed out
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  Speaker 1: or something like he's not responsive. And so, really having
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  Speaker 1: no clue what else to do, she just rushed next
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  Speaker 1: door to a relative's house. She got some family members
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  Speaker 1: they came outside and together they scooped up the non
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  Speaker 1: responsive ununed, threw him in a vehicle, and they rushed
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  Speaker 1: him to the hospital. And when they got to the hospital,
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  Speaker 1: Priya leapt out of the car, you know, leaving a
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  Speaker 1: NUND and her family behind, and she bolts inside. She
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  Speaker 1: tells the front desk attendant what's going on, that her
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  Speaker 1: husband he's not breathing, he's unresponsive. He's in the car.
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  Speaker 1: And so right away medical staff came charging out. They
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  Speaker 1: went and they got an UND. They brought him inside
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  Speaker 1: and before long Priya is running behind all the doctors
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  Speaker 1: and nurses that are rushing ANUND on a gurney through
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  Speaker 1: the hospital to an exam room. They get in the
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  Speaker 1: exam room and even though Priya, you know, she's kind
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  Speaker 1: of off to the side, she can't really see what's
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  Speaker 1: going on, but she can see the doctor who is
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  Speaker 1: primarily trying to figure out what's wrong with an UND,
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  Speaker 1: and she sees at first he's kind of like doing
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  Speaker 1: a couple of things to see if he can get
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  Speaker 1: Anon to start reacting to him. But pretty quickly she
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  Speaker 1: sees this doctor just kind of sit back and there's
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  Speaker 1: this look of pity that comes over his face, and
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  Speaker 1: he turns and he looks over at Pria and he
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  Speaker 1: tells her that, you know, unfortunately your husband is dead.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: For Pria, this whole thing has happened so quickly that
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  Speaker 1: it's almost like she can't even begin to process it.
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  Speaker 2: And so instead of you know, becoming hysterical with.
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  Speaker 1: Grief, her first thought is, how could he have died?
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  Speaker 1: Anon was a healthy guy. He's you know, thirty five
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  Speaker 1: years old. He's he's in the best shape of his life.
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  Speaker 1: He's a happy guy with a robust social life. Like
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  Speaker 1: there's there's no reason he should be.
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  Speaker 2: Dying right now. Like what in the world happened here?
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  Speaker 2: What killed him?
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  Speaker 1: Like that's her question to the doctor. But the doctor said,
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  Speaker 1: he's like, I don't know. The only way we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be able to figure out what happened to her
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  Speaker 1: is to do an autopsy, because there's just nothing obvious.
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  Speaker 1: And so, sure enough, a couple of days later, the
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  Speaker 1: hospital's pathologist was, you know, inside of an exam room
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  Speaker 1: with a non's body laying on.
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  Speaker 2: A table right in front of him.
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  Speaker 1: And this pathologist had done countless autopsies. This was you know,
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  Speaker 1: very standard work for this doctor. And so the pathologists,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they went into this autopsy really not having
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  Speaker 1: any idea what killed this guy. But in their head
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  Speaker 1: they were thinking, okay, maybe it was a sudden heart attack,
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  Speaker 1: because this sort of seems like that could be it.
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  Speaker 1: And so they made their first decision on a Non's chest,
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  Speaker 1: and the first place they went to look was a
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  Speaker 1: noon's heart. But after looking at an On's heart, they
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  Speaker 1: determined that no, he did not go into cardiac arrest,
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  Speaker 1: he did not die from a heart attack. This death
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  Speaker 1: was not connected to his heart, and so the pathologist
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  Speaker 1: naturally moved from the heart to a non's lungs, which
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  Speaker 1: is another area that you know, he believed could have
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  Speaker 1: something to do with this death. But after checking those out,
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  Speaker 1: it was clear the lungs did not have to do
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  Speaker 1: with a Non's death. And so after that, the pathologists
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  Speaker 1: wound up checking all of a Non's organs, you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to find any sign of what killed him. But
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  Speaker 1: there was nothing. There was no indication that this guy
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  Speaker 1: should have died. Now, the pathologist was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: surprised because they figured, you know, by this point they
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  Speaker 1: would have had the answer of what happened to him.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, it's no matter.
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  Speaker 1: They had done many autopsies before where it required some
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  Speaker 1: you know, further looking to figure out what happened. And
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  Speaker 1: so they moved on and they made an incision in
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  Speaker 1: Ann's throat, and when they opened up Anon's throat, the
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  Speaker 1: pathologist just stepped back and gasped because in their entire
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  Speaker 1: career they had never ever seen anything like this. It
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  Speaker 1: would turn out that Priya was not the only one
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  Speaker 1: who felt deep sadness around not having a family yet.
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  Speaker 1: Anand as well was just really heartbroken over the idea that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he was never going to become a father,
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  Speaker 1: and so, without telling his wife, Anand had gone out
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  Speaker 1: and sought out professional help for their fertility issues. However,
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  Speaker 1: the type of professional help that he sought was a
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  Speaker 1: little bit unorthodox. Instead of going to see a licensed doctor,
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  Speaker 1: a Nund went to see what's called a tantric, which
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  Speaker 1: is basically a practitioner of occult magic. And this tantric
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  Speaker 1: gave Anund instructions for how to perform this ritual that
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  Speaker 1: supposedly guaranteed, you know, if he did it correctly, that
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  Speaker 1: he would be able to have his child.
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  Speaker 2: A Nund clearly believed this Tantrick.
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  Speaker 1: And so after being given the instructions, he went out
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  Speaker 1: and gathered the necessary resources and he took them home.
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  Speaker 1: And then on the night that he died, while Priya
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  Speaker 1: was in bed waiting for him, and he was in
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  Speaker 1: the bathroom, you know, taking his bath or whatever. Well,
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  Speaker 1: at some point in the bathroom, a nund performed this
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  Speaker 1: fertility ritual and it killed him. A nund per the
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  Speaker 1: tantricks instructions, had taken a living baby chicken a chick,
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  Speaker 1: and attempted to swallow it whole. Apparently that was all
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  Speaker 1: he needed to do in order to have a child,
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  Speaker 1: as he's so desperately wanted. But when he swallowed this chick,
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  Speaker 1: it got stuck in his throat and within minutes he
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  Speaker 1: suffocated to death, and also, unfortunately, the chick died as well.
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  Speaker 1: One morning in late November of nineteen seventy nine, a
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  Speaker 1: sixty four year old man named John Perrin walked through
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  Speaker 1: a park near his home in East London, South Africa,
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  Speaker 1: which is a small coastal town. The park was basically
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  Speaker 1: a forested area that ran right along the coastline. So
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  Speaker 1: even though John was walking on a trail through all
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  Speaker 1: these trees, he could literally hear the ocean waves crashing
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  Speaker 1: down on the beach below. And being out here was
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  Speaker 1: actually a pretty big deal for John because he didn't
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  Speaker 1: come to this park very often. In fact, he pretty
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  Speaker 1: much never left his house because John was a total recluse.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, in addition to not leaving his house,
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  Speaker 1: he basically spoke to nobody. He didn't have friends, didn't
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  Speaker 1: have family. He basically had the this one cousin he
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  Speaker 1: spoke to sometimes on the phone, but that was it.
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  Speaker 2: This guy was very isolated.
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  Speaker 1: But today, something that John had told him to go
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  Speaker 1: outside and go to this park and take a walk.
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  Speaker 1: It was just like this kind of weird intuition that
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  Speaker 1: he couldn't even explain, but he just hadn't questioned it,
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  Speaker 1: and here he was doing what his gut was telling
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  Speaker 1: him to do.
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  Speaker 2: So now he followed the trail through.
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  Speaker 1: The woods and listened to the ocean down below, and
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  Speaker 1: he eventually went around this bend, and when he did,
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  Speaker 1: he saw there was somebody on the trail up ahead.
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  Speaker 1: It was this young man who John had never seen before.
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  Speaker 1: And this young man looked really anxious. He was sort
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  Speaker 1: of pacing back and forth on the trail like he
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  Speaker 1: was trying to maybe build up the nerve to do something.
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  Speaker 1: At least that's what John's first impression was. Now, to John,
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  Speaker 1: this guy did not feel like a threat to him.
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  Speaker 1: It just seems sort of odd what.
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  Speaker 2: He was doing.
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  Speaker 1: And so John was curious, and so he continued walking
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  Speaker 1: down the trail closer to this guy to see what
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  Speaker 1: was happening here. You know, Remember, John thinks he's here
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  Speaker 1: for like some really divine reason.
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  Speaker 2: In some ways, he doesn't really know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: He thinks is his gut intuition has brought him here,
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  Speaker 1: you know, maybe it's this guy. And so he's walking
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  Speaker 1: down the trail, sizing up what he's doing. And as
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  Speaker 1: he gets closer to this man who's pacing back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: John realizes that the man is sort of pacing up
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  Speaker 1: to the edge of this cliff. Basically, again, this park
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  Speaker 1: sits right on the coastline, but the coastline is way
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  Speaker 1: down below.
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  Speaker 2: And John realizes this guy.
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  Speaker 1: Is pacing back and forth to the cliff and then
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  Speaker 1: going back over to the cliff and then back and
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  Speaker 1: this is a massive drop off. This cliff is like
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  Speaker 1: all the way down to the beach, easily a fatal
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  Speaker 1: fall if you were to fall off the cliff. And
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  Speaker 1: suddenly it clicks for John. This young man is contemplating
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  Speaker 1: taking his own life. He's working up the courage to
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  Speaker 1: jump off the cliff. At least that's what John is thinking.
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  Speaker 1: The young man is so locked in on what he's doing,
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  Speaker 1: he's barely even registering the John is here. He's still
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  Speaker 1: just pacing, you know, building up the courage again it
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  Speaker 1: appeared to jump off this cliff, and so John's standing
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  Speaker 1: there really sure what to do. And also there were
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  Speaker 1: these other people that were also on the trail that
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  Speaker 1: had sort of taken notice of the situation, and there
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  Speaker 1: was this crowd forming sort of standing a little bit
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  Speaker 1: back of this young man, you know, not wanting to unintentionally,
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  Speaker 1: you know, startle him and get him to jump off
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  Speaker 1: the cliff.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's just kind of standing there watching.
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  Speaker 1: But for John, as he's standing there almost paralyzed, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not knowing what to do, He's watching this.
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  Speaker 2: Guy go back and forth.
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  Speaker 1: And then it was like everything clicked. Suddenly John understood
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  Speaker 1: why he was here. His gut instinct had brought him
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  Speaker 1: here to go up and interact with this young man.
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  Speaker 1: And so John broke from the crowd. He walked up
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  Speaker 1: to this young man who was still pacing back and forth,
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  Speaker 1: and he put his arm around the young man and
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  Speaker 1: he looked at him and he said, I'll show you
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  Speaker 1: how it's done.
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  Speaker 2: And then John walked to the edge of the cliff
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  Speaker 2: and jumped. And the young man was.
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  Speaker 1: So shocked by this that he just stood there and
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  Speaker 1: he watched as John plummeted down to the beach below
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  Speaker 1: and smashed into the ground and died.
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  Speaker 2: And this young man, I mean, he's.
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  Speaker 1: So horrified by this, so shocked that he decided he
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  Speaker 1: wasn't going to jump after all. Seeing it happen, seeing
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  Speaker 1: John do the thing that this young man was there
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  Speaker 1: to do, to jump off this cliff, to take his
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  Speaker 1: own life, to see somebody else do it was so.
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  Speaker 2: Awful that he decided not to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And so as he's having this revelation, the young man
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  Speaker 1: also distinctly felt grateful, grateful to John, you know, for
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  Speaker 1: doing what he did, because in watching what happened to him,
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  Speaker 1: it showed the young man that in fact, he did
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  Speaker 1: want to live. At one am on March third, nineteen
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  Speaker 1: forty four, a young train operator named Michelle Polo stood
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  Speaker 1: in the Kaboo's car of a great train that was
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  Speaker 1: slowly going up the side of a mountain.
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  Speaker 2: In southern Italy.
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  Speaker 1: Michelle's job was to operate the brakes for the back
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  Speaker 1: half of the train, and tonight he had to be
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  Speaker 1: on high alert because they were traveling under really dangerous conditions.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, Michelle was worried they might not even make
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  Speaker 1: it to the next stop. So first of all, it
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  Speaker 1: was raining and snowing outside, so the tracks were naturally
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  Speaker 1: very slippery, which meant it was going to be harder
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  Speaker 1: for the train to get the traction it needed to
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  Speaker 1: go up the mountain. Second, the train's engine wasn't working
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  Speaker 1: as well as normal, and that was in large part
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  Speaker 1: because the coal the train company had to use was
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  Speaker 1: this really cheap, crappy kind of coal. Because this is
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  Speaker 1: nineteen forty four, World War two is raging, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: a coal shortage had been created as a result of
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  Speaker 1: that because all the good coal was being shipped off
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  Speaker 1: to be used in the war, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: this train company had the bad coal. And then finally,
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  Speaker 1: the train was just way too heavy, even though it
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  Speaker 1: was only supposed to be carrying the you know, small
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  Speaker 1: crew and the freight. The reality was is there were
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  Speaker 1: over five hundred stowaways on board, weighing the train down.
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  Speaker 2: Again, this is World War two.
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  Speaker 1: There are all these people that are trying to flee
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  Speaker 1: war torn parts of the world, and one of the
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  Speaker 1: ways they would do that is by stowing away on trains.
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  Speaker 1: And now Michelle and the other crew they were aware
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  Speaker 1: of these stowaways.
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  Speaker 2: It was not subtle.
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  Speaker 1: They're literally in the cars, they're on top of the cars,
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  Speaker 1: and they're just trying to make their way into Italy
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  Speaker 1: to get away from, you know, war torn parts of
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  Speaker 1: the world. And Michelle and the other crew they were
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  Speaker 1: supposed to call security and you know, tell these people
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  Speaker 1: to get off the train, but they didn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: They felt bad and they sort of felt like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: allowing these people to you know, make their escape was
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  Speaker 1: you know, a morally good thing to do. But tonight,
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  Speaker 1: between the horrible weather making the track slick, and you know,
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  Speaker 1: the coal that was not very good and sort of
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  Speaker 1: made the engine not work very well, and all this
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  Speaker 1: additional weight from the stowaways, it just seemed to Michelle
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  Speaker 1: like if there was ever going to be a time
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  Speaker 1: that this train could not make it up the mountain.
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  Speaker 2: It was going to be tonight.
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  Speaker 1: And so the reason he's on high alert is if
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  Speaker 1: the train reached a point where it could not go
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  Speaker 1: any higher for any of the reasons I've just told you,
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  Speaker 1: the train would start to backslide, and that's incredibly dangerous
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  Speaker 1: and it would be on Michelle and also the engineers
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  Speaker 1: at the front of the train to hit the brakes
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  Speaker 1: and stop the slide. And so Michelle, you know, he's
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  Speaker 1: on high alert. He's got the lever for the brakes.
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  Speaker 1: He's watching for any sign of like you know, the
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  Speaker 1: trains slowing down something like that. And they begin to
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  Speaker 1: make their ascent up this mountain up ahead, and at
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  Speaker 1: first it's going relatively fine, but it was just very
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  Speaker 1: clear to Michelle, who knew this train well, that it
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  Speaker 1: was struggling to get up the tracks. But he saw
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  Speaker 1: up ahead there was this tunnel they would have to
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  Speaker 1: pass through before they made the trip.
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  Speaker 2: The rest of the way up and over the mountain.
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  Speaker 1: And Michelle's thinking, great, the tunnel is going to provide
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  Speaker 1: us dry, clean tracks where the train. If we just
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  Speaker 1: get into that tunnel, we can sort of get some momentum,
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  Speaker 1: get through the tunnel and ride that momentum, because we
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  Speaker 1: know the tracks are going to be good up and
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  Speaker 1: over the rest of the wedding, Michelle is he's anxiously
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  Speaker 1: watching as the train is sort of sputtering its way
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  Speaker 1: up towards this tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: He knows that's going to be the key. Just get
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  Speaker 2: to that tunnel and we'll be able to get over
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  Speaker 2: this mountain no problem.
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  Speaker 1: And so up they go, inching their way, and he
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  Speaker 1: sees the front of the train goes into the tunnel,
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  Speaker 1: and right away he feels that the train's gaining a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of speed here as more and more of
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  Speaker 1: the train is getting onto those dry tracks in the
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  Speaker 1: tunnel and they're.
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  Speaker 2: Moving right along.
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  Speaker 1: But then sort of inexplicably, the train begins to slow down.
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  Speaker 1: As the train is again entering into this tunnel. Remember
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  Speaker 1: it's late at night. He can't really see what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: He can just tell that there's the tunnel the train's
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: going in. But we're slowing down here. And in fact,
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  Speaker 1: by the time that the caboose where Michelle was was
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  Speaker 1: about to enter into the train, the last car here,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: the train had finally slowed down so much that the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: train actually came to a stop with Michelle and the
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  Speaker 1: caboose right outside the tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, ninety nine percent.
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  Speaker 1: Of the train is in the tunnel, Michelle and the
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  Speaker 1: kabs are outside.
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  Speaker 2: The train is now fully stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Now, generally speaking, the conductor, who was situated in the
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  Speaker 1: very front car of the train was overall in charge
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  Speaker 1: of the train, and so in any sort of emergency situation,
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  Speaker 1: it was often on the conductor to sort of make
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  Speaker 1: the call about what the crew was going to do
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  Speaker 1: in response. Now, the train was clearly not backsliding. There
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: wasn't an active emergency here. But Michelle knew that this
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  Speaker 1: is wrong. There really wasn't a clear reason they should
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: be stopped here. If anything, again, this tunnel represented their
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: best chance to move quickly and gain momentum and ride
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  Speaker 1: up and over this mountain, and so Michelle does not
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: know why they're stopped, but clearly there's some sort of issue.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: However, Michelle knows from his training.
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: That what he needs to do is still be be
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: weary of the break here because for all he knows,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you know, maybe there is some issue with the train
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: and it is backsliding, but it's just slow, and so
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: he needs to be ready to hit the brakes, and
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: so what Michelle did is he held the brake and
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: waited for a signal from the conductor. Basically, the conductor
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: would blow a series of whistles that, you know, Michelle
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: would be able to translate that would tell him what
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: to do, whether it was, you know, lock the brakes
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: or come up and talk to me, or any number
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: of different things he.
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  Speaker 2: Might need to do in this situation.
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  Speaker 1: And so Michelle, he's just sitting there waiting for the
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: train whistle, but there's nothing.
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: There's just quiet.
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  Speaker 1: There's no other sound except for the idling engine, you know,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: towards the front of the train. And so Michelle he
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: just started to have this bad feeling that this doesn't
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: make sense.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: There's no good reason why we've stopped here.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: And so Michelle, operating on gut instinct here, you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: despite not getting any signal from the conductor, no whistles,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: know anything, he abandoned the caboose, He abandoned the brake
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: station and began walking from the caboose basically up the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: center of the train, going into the next car. And
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: when he got into the next car, you know, it's
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: totally dark because it's one am. This car is the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: first car that he's walking into that's in the tunnel.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So it's very dark, and he did have a flashlight,
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: but he didn't want to shine it on the people
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: who are sleeping in here because there's hundreds of stowaways.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: These people have had very bad luck. They just want
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: to get out of the country. And so as quietly
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: as he could, he's walking through the aisle of this
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: next train car, and you know, he doesn't notice anything.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Everybody is asleep for the most part, and he's walking
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: along and as he gets to the next train car,
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: he realizes he's starting to hear a new sound and
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: it's not coming from in the train. It's coming from
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: somewhere outside in the tunnel. It's like this loud, thumping sound.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Something is hitting the rocks on the side of the
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: tracks somewhere in the tunnel, and you know, Michelle, he
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: doesn't know what it is.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: He still doesn't know what's going on. He hasn't discovered.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: Any sign of, you know, what has actually happened here,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: and so he just keeps on walking and as he
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: goes into the next car, he continues to hear all
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: these thumping sounds somewhere outside and the train's still not moving,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: there's no whistles from the conductor. By the time he's
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: about halfway down that next train car, he's now into
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: the second car he's investigating. He realizes that in addition
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: to the odd thumping sound and the lack of movement
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: and lack of anything really going on in this tunnel,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: he also realizes that the car itself that he is
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: in is very quiet. Remember, there's basically dozens of people
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: in each of these cars kind of laying on each other,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: sleeping as they make their way into Italy. And so
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: for the first time, Michelle turned on his flashlight and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he's aiming it at the ground right in front of him,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: and he turned and began to scan all the stowaways
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: sleeping in this car, and what he saw was so
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: horrifying he dropped the flashlight, turned and ran out of
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the tunnel. It would turn out Michelle was right to
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: be concerned that this train might not be able to
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: make it up this mountain by the time the train
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: sputtered into that tunnel, despite the fact that, yes, the
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: conditions were much better in the tunnel for the train
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: to maintain speed and momentum. Despite that, the other factors
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: were too much to overcome.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: The train was.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Too heavy from all the stowaways, and the coal was
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: quite bad, so the engine was not as powerful as
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: it normally would be, and so even though the tracks
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: were not slick, it was just too much, and so
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the train ground to a halt inside of the tunnel.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: And so what needed to happen as soon as the
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: train came to a stop like that is the conductor
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: and the crew at the front of the train they
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: needed to basically jumpstart the train.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: They needed to.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Put as much coal as they could into the furnace
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: to get this engine churning enough that it could pick
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: up speed again and continue their journey. They basically needed
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: to rev the engine, if you will, and really fire
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: this engine up and get it going. But in order
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: to do that, they had to put a huge amount
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: of this coal into the furnace to make that jump
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: start happen. Because again, this coal is not high quality,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: it doesn't burn as well, it's not as efficient, and
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: so basically what could have been accomplished with two times
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the amount of coal, you needed like ten times the
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: amount of this bad coal to do the same thing.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: But one of the byproducts of burning this type of coal,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: really coal in general, but especially this cheap kind of coal,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: and especially this much of this cheap kind of coal
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: is it produces a ton of carbon monoxide, and that
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: filled this tunnel. Michelle was outside of the tunnel. His
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: caboose was the one car that was not in the tunnel,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: but everybody else on this train was suddenly being exposed
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: to a huge amount of poisonous lethal gas, and it
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: killed virtually everybody on this train very quickly. Those thumping
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: sounds that Michelle was hearing were the sounds of people's
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: bodies after they had died, rolling off the train and
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: falling to the ground. When he walked through the train
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: car and looked around, the reason it was so quiet
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: is everybody in these train.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Cars were dead.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Out of the approximately six hundred stowaways and crew who
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: had been on board this train, five hundred and twenty
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: one were found dead. Thank you so much for watching.
• 23:07
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• 23:09
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• 23:15
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• 23:18
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• 23:24
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