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They shouldn’t have slept on Crab Island... - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Around eight pm on April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy seven,
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  Speaker 1: a thirty one year old man named a Polinario Suza
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  Speaker 1: Carrea poured water on the campfire that he had built
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  Speaker 1: with his three brothers, Formino, Aleiano, and Jose on the
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  Speaker 1: beach of a small uninhabited island.
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  Speaker 2: In northeast Brazil.
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  Speaker 1: The island was called Crab Island, and a Polinario and
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  Speaker 1: his family would take their boat there all the time
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  Speaker 1: because they would harvest lumber that they would then sell
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  Speaker 1: to local construction workers.
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  Speaker 2: Now when they would go out to Crab Island, pretty.
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  Speaker 1: Much every single time, there was nobody else on this island.
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  Speaker 1: It was all theirs. But there was a specific reason
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  Speaker 1: for that. It was because most of their neighbors thought
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  Speaker 1: that Crab Island was haunted. People who visited the island
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  Speaker 1: would often report hearing these strange voices coming from the forest,
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  Speaker 1: in particular at night, even though nobody lived on this island,
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  Speaker 1: and then sometimes people even saw lights flashing over the
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  Speaker 1: tree tops. But a Polinario and his brothers made really
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  Speaker 1: good money by going out to Crab Island. And also
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  Speaker 1: they just were not afraid of the stories people told.
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  Speaker 1: They thought they were all made up. And so today
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  Speaker 1: they had arrived at Crab Island during high tide, which
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  Speaker 1: had been at about twelve PM, and then they had
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  Speaker 1: spent the entire afternoon chopping down trees, but that didn't
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  Speaker 1: concern them because they really hadn't planned to immediately sail
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  Speaker 1: back home. They had planned to actually have dinner on
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  Speaker 1: the island after they were done working, and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: sleep for a few hours actually on their boat while
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  Speaker 1: it was out on the mud. And then while they
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  Speaker 1: were sleeping for a few hours, the tide would come
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  Speaker 1: back in again, it.
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  Speaker 2: Would raise their boat up.
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  Speaker 1: They would wake up, you know, and they'd be ready
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  Speaker 1: to sail home at that point.
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  Speaker 2: And so that's what they did. They had this long
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  Speaker 2: day of work.
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  Speaker 1: They had their dinner by the campfire, and then after
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  Speaker 1: a Polinario put out the fire, he and his brothers
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  Speaker 1: waded into the mud over towards their boat, which was
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  Speaker 1: literally sitting, you know, low tide on the mud, and
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  Speaker 1: they climbed on board. They walked into the main cabin,
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  Speaker 1: they laid down their sleeping pads, and it didn't take
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  Speaker 1: long for them all to fall asleep. Now a Polinario
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  Speaker 1: and his brothers had only intended to sleep until about midnight.
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  Speaker 1: But when a Polinario woke back up again, although it
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  Speaker 1: was still dark in the cabin, he looked out the
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  Speaker 1: tiny window and he saw that the sky outside was
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  Speaker 1: already pink from the sunrise. And when he saw this,
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  Speaker 1: he groaned because he knew they had overslept and had
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  Speaker 1: missed high tide.
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  Speaker 2: Basically, their boat had gone.
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  Speaker 1: Back up and then back down into the mud, and
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  Speaker 1: now they were stuck again and would have to wait
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  Speaker 1: likely until noon to finally be able to leave.
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  Speaker 2: So it was just a nuisance.
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  Speaker 1: And so at this point, a Polinario looked over to
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  Speaker 1: see if his three brothers were still asleep, and he
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  Speaker 1: saw that Fermino and Jose were still asleep on their
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  Speaker 1: sleeping pads with their blankets pulled up over their faces.
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  Speaker 1: But his third brother, Ailariano, his sleeping pad was empty,
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  Speaker 1: and he wasn't inside the cabin. And so as a
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  Speaker 1: Polinario is realizing, you know, his third brother is gone,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't know where he is, he hears this just deafening
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  Speaker 1: screaming coming from outside on the boat, but not inside
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  Speaker 1: the main cabin, and so immediately a Polinario he jumps up,
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  Speaker 1: he runs outside and he finds his third brother, Ailariano,
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  Speaker 1: and his brother was completely covered in burns. A Polinario
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  Speaker 1: was so horrified that he just froze because it looked
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  Speaker 1: like his brother's skin had literally been set on fire.
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  Speaker 1: And then he noticed something even stranger about the whole thing,
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  Speaker 1: which was, you know, his brother, despite being so badly burned,
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  Speaker 1: his clothes didn't appear burned.
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  Speaker 2: It was like literally just.
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  Speaker 1: His skin, like somehow his skin had caught fire, but
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  Speaker 1: nothing else on him, and his brother is just screaming
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  Speaker 1: in agony, and a Polinario has no idea what to do,
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  Speaker 1: He has no idea how this even happened. And while
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  Speaker 1: this is happening, this sort of shocked moment, A Polinario
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  Speaker 1: begins to hear moaning coming from back inside the cabin
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  Speaker 1: where he came from, and so, just sort of acting
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  Speaker 1: on instinct, he ran back inside the cabin. And remember
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  Speaker 1: his two brothers, Formino and Jose, their blankets were up
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  Speaker 1: over their.
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  Speaker 2: Heads, so he hadn't seen them yet, and so he
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  Speaker 2: runs in.
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  Speaker 1: He knows the moaning is coming from one of them,
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  Speaker 1: and he pulls back the blankets and he sees the
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  Speaker 1: moan is coming from Formino. Then his skin is just
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  Speaker 1: horribly burned, like his skin is literally falling off his body.
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  Speaker 1: But just like his other brother, his clothes didn't appear
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  Speaker 1: to be burned at all. It was like just his
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  Speaker 1: skin had been set on fire, and he's moaning in
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  Speaker 1: just pure agony. And then a Polinario he looks over
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  Speaker 1: at his other brother who's also on a sleeping pad, Jose,
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  Speaker 1: and he was not burned, but he was dead now. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: because of the tides, A Polinario still had to wait
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  Speaker 1: a full six hours before he could get his brothers
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  Speaker 1: off the island, and so they waited until the tide
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  Speaker 1: came in, and then finally they took off. And then
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  Speaker 1: when they got back to land, Aliano, who was the
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  Speaker 1: one who was screaming outside the main cabin, who had
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  Speaker 1: you know, burns all over his body.
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  Speaker 2: He was badly hurt.
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  Speaker 1: But not maybe critically, so he stayed behind with Jose's body,
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  Speaker 1: and a Polinario wound up taking Fermino to the hospital
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  Speaker 1: because his injuries looked like they could be critical.
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  Speaker 2: When when they finally got to the hospital, for Mino.
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  Speaker 1: Was like barely conscious, like his injuries were really taking
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  Speaker 1: a toll on him.
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  Speaker 2: It was like his body was shutting down.
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  Speaker 1: But as soon as he was checked in, the doctors
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  Speaker 1: asked him, like, hey, just tell us how you got
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  Speaker 1: these burns. Give us some indication of how this happened,
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  Speaker 1: And right before Formino slipped into a coma from his burns,
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  Speaker 1: he was able to tell them that when he and
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  Speaker 1: his brothers were still out at Crab Island, he had
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  Speaker 1: looked out the window from inside the cabin of his
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  Speaker 1: boat and they were all sleeping in the boat and
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  Speaker 1: outside there was this inexplicable ball of fire hovering in.
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  Speaker 2: The air, and that's all he remembered. He had no
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  Speaker 2: idea how he actually got burned.
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  Speaker 1: So the police opened an investigation into whatever happened that
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  Speaker 1: night at Crab Island, and they would come up with
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  Speaker 1: several theories that, you know, maybe could explain it, including
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  Speaker 1: that maybe the men had simply injured each other and
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  Speaker 1: were just sort of lying about it. Maybe they had
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  Speaker 1: taken drugs or were under the influence of something, and
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  Speaker 1: you know, while being that way, they could have hurt
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  Speaker 1: themselves or each other, or just something could have happened
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  Speaker 1: that they didn't remember. Or another theory was maybe lightning
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  Speaker 1: struck the beach and somehow reflected off the sand and
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  Speaker 1: bolts of lightning made their way out into the boat
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  Speaker 1: and burned two and killed one. But the reality was
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  Speaker 1: is these theories there was no evidence to support any
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  Speaker 1: of them. In fact, the big takeaway from this investigation
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  Speaker 1: is basically that when they went out to that island
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  Speaker 1: they found nothing. There was just no evidence whatsoever. Ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: the two injured surviving brothers, Formino and Oleriano, they would
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  Speaker 1: make full recoveries, but neither of them ever could remember
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  Speaker 1: any meaningful details of what happened, and so eventually the
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  Speaker 1: case was closed without really any answers. But strange stories
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  Speaker 1: continued to come from Crab Island. People continued to hear
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  Speaker 1: voices and see strange lights, and then finally, in April
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen eighty six, so nine years after the death
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  Speaker 1: of Jose, a different crew of four men traveled out
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  Speaker 1: to Crab Island to harvest timber, and at some point
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  Speaker 1: they all recalled hearing this loud, crashing sound out in
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  Speaker 1: the woods, and then they all just fell unconscious, and
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  Speaker 1: when they woke up again, it was eighteen hours later.
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  Speaker 1: One of them was dead and another one was inexplicably
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  Speaker 1: covered and burns, And just like the brothers nine years earlier,
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  Speaker 1: the survivors of this incident had no memory of what happened.
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  Speaker 1: On the night of June twelfth, nineteen ninety three, sixty
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  Speaker 1: nine year old Dieke Slayton climbed into bed in his
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  Speaker 1: home in League City, Texas. And even this small action,
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  Speaker 1: you know, getting in bed took a lot of effort
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  Speaker 1: for Deeke because he was very very sick.
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  Speaker 2: So Deeke had a brain tumor.
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  Speaker 1: He'd actually been diagnosed the year before, but had then
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  Speaker 1: quickly gone into permission, so he thought he'd beaten it,
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  Speaker 1: but it had unfortunately come back a few months later,
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  Speaker 1: and this time it was much worse. Deeke knew eventually
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  Speaker 1: this thing was going to kill him, and unfortunately, probably
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  Speaker 1: sooner than later. His wife and daughter had been taking
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  Speaker 1: care of him as he got weaker and sicker, and
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  Speaker 1: while he certainly appreciated it, the reality was, is it
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  Speaker 1: really bothered him. I mean, he was a tough guy
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  Speaker 1: and he was used to being the person who took
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  Speaker 1: care of other people, not the other way around. But
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  Speaker 1: more than that, the worst part of him getting sick
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  Speaker 1: was he hadn't been able to fly a plane in months.
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  Speaker 1: So Deeke was like a legend in the aviation community.
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  Speaker 1: As a young man, he'd been in the Air Force,
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  Speaker 1: and he'd flown in World War II combat missions, some
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  Speaker 1: of the most harrowing aerial combat in recorded history, and
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  Speaker 1: Deeke had loved being up high and looking down at
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  Speaker 1: the world from his cockpit so much that after the
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  Speaker 1: war was over, he'd gone one step further to space,
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  Speaker 1: and he had.
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  Speaker 2: Not just become a regular astronaut.
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  Speaker 1: He'd been on NASA's first team of astronauts to literally ever.
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  Speaker 2: Go to space.
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  Speaker 1: And then after he had gotten too old for space trips,
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  Speaker 1: he continued to work for NASA in various capacities until
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  Speaker 1: his retirement ten years ago. But retiring had not meant
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  Speaker 1: he just stopped, you know, aerial travel completely. I mean
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  Speaker 1: he was done flying into space, but he still flew planes.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, he was a hugely successful amateur air racer,
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  Speaker 1: which is a competitive sport where aircraft raced one another
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  Speaker 1: through basically an aerial obstacle course. And so now as
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  Speaker 1: Deeke's life was sort of slipping through his fingers, all
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  Speaker 1: he found himself wanting to do was just go fly.
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  Speaker 1: He had this plane called a Stinger, which he used
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  Speaker 1: for racing. It was this red small plane that was
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  Speaker 1: super loud, pretty unique, but he loved this plane and
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  Speaker 1: he just constantly fantasized about getting back in the cockpit
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  Speaker 1: and going for a ride. However, Deeke did know that
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  Speaker 1: because of his tumor, you know, realistically, him flying a
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  Speaker 1: plane would not be safe. His speech was shaky and
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  Speaker 1: he was tired all the time, also, like his balance
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  Speaker 1: and decision making were affected. And then on top of
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  Speaker 1: the physical limitations from his tumor, also there was the
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  Speaker 1: reality that his stingerplane was currently in storage. But as
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  Speaker 1: Deeke laid in bed that night feeling just physically awful
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  Speaker 1: and you know, literally feeling his life sort of slipping away,
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  Speaker 1: you know, all he wanted was just one more time
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  Speaker 1: to fly, and it just became so overpowering that desire
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  Speaker 1: to fly again that he decided while he was laying
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  Speaker 1: there that tomorrow, first thing in the morning, whether I
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  Speaker 1: am sick or not, I'm getting up, I am taking
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  Speaker 1: my Stinger out of storage, and I AM going for
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  Speaker 1: a ride. Early the next morning, at the John Wayne
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  Speaker 1: Airport in southern California, which was over fifteen hundred miles
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  Speaker 1: away from where Deeke lived, an airport manager stepped into
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  Speaker 1: his office ready to start his shift. He worked for
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  Speaker 1: the airport's noise abatement department, which was responsible for making
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  Speaker 1: sure that the planes that flew in and out didn't
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  Speaker 1: make too much noise.
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  Speaker 2: And drive the neighbors crazy.
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  Speaker 1: And usually this early in the morning things were pretty
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  Speaker 1: calm and uneventful. But today, as soon as the manager
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  Speaker 1: got into his office, he heard his desk phone ring,
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  Speaker 1: and when he answered it, the person on the other
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  Speaker 1: end said they were a local resident and they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make a complaint. There had just been a plane
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  Speaker 1: flying low over her house making a ton of noise.
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  Speaker 1: The manager immediately looked over at the clock and saw
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  Speaker 1: it was just before eight am, which meant that the
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  Speaker 1: plane that this resident was complaining about was in violation
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  Speaker 1: of the airport's curfew. John Wayne Airport had a policy
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  Speaker 1: where they didn't let any planes take off before eight
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  Speaker 1: am on Sundays, specifically to avoid this, to avoid bothering
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  Speaker 1: the locals too early. And so on the phone, this
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  Speaker 1: you know, perturbed resident gave a description of the aircraft,
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  Speaker 1: which was a small red racing stinger, and so the
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  Speaker 1: manager took some notes, hung up, and was about to
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  Speaker 1: you know, start making some phone calls when their phone
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  Speaker 1: rang again and it was another resident with basically the
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  Speaker 1: exact same complaint. And then after that this manager got
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  Speaker 1: more and more calls all about this red plane, and
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  Speaker 1: all the people who were complaining basically said they had
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  Speaker 1: heard it, they had seen it. It was like doing
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  Speaker 1: these crazy aerial maneuvers.
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  Speaker 2: But now it was gone.
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  Speaker 1: So they were calling sort of after the fact, it's
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  Speaker 1: gone now, but it was really really disruptive. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the callers actually said that at certain points this plane,
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  Speaker 1: when they saw it had flown so low, they were
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  Speaker 1: able to read its identification number and they had written
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  Speaker 1: it down to report it, and so they told the
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  Speaker 1: manager that it was N twenty one x.
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  Speaker 2: That was the number on this plane.
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  Speaker 1: And so at some point when the manager had a chance,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in between all these calls they getting, they
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  Speaker 1: looked up on their computer to see who this plane
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  Speaker 1: was registered to, you know, using that number N twenty
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  Speaker 1: one x. And when they saw whose plane this was,
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  Speaker 1: the manager was shocked. This was Deke Slayton's plane. The
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  Speaker 1: manager knew Deeke, I mean everybody did, and it was
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  Speaker 1: very surprising to him that somebody like Deeke, who was
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  Speaker 1: a consummate professional, would be flying around so recklessly outside
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  Speaker 1: of curfew.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So on his computer, the manager pulled up the morning's
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  Speaker 1: readings from the airport's noise monitors, and when the manager
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  Speaker 1: saw the readings, he could see very clearly that at
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  Speaker 1: least three monitors had gone way up at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: the residents all said they saw Deeke's plane. And so
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  Speaker 1: at this point the manager knew that because of these
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  Speaker 1: noise recordings which corroborated the reports, that he would have
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  Speaker 1: to send, you know, the legend himself Deek a formal
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  Speaker 1: note about doing this. I mean, he was basically going
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  Speaker 1: to have to reprimand Deeke. However, based on all the
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  Speaker 1: reports and also on those monitors which measured the noise
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  Speaker 1: in the area, it seemed apparent that Deek, you know,
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  Speaker 1: whatever he was doing, he was done doing it now
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  Speaker 1: because he was out of the airspace, and so you know,
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  Speaker 1: this manager would have to reprimand him, but there wasn't
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  Speaker 1: a huge urgency, but he would have to do it eventually.
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  Speaker 1: So the manager printed out the noise recordings, put them
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  Speaker 1: on his stack of things to do, and then just
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  Speaker 1: went about his day. Fifteen days later, that manager finally
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  Speaker 1: got around to actually sending that warning to Deeke. And
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  Speaker 1: when Deeke's wife got that letter and read its contents,
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  Speaker 1: she was so confused because what this airport was claiming
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  Speaker 1: Deeke did was literally impossible. It would turn out there
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  Speaker 1: was literally no way Deeke Slayton could have been flying
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  Speaker 1: his Stinger over the California skies on that day because
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  Speaker 1: the storage location that was holding Deeke's plane was actually
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  Speaker 1: a museum in Nevada. He'd given the Stinger to them
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  Speaker 1: three years ago and it hadn't moved since. And just
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  Speaker 1: to make it clear here, they had removed the engine
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  Speaker 1: on the Stinger and then hung the Stinger from the
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  Speaker 1: rafters in this museum, like this thing is not flable,
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  Speaker 1: at least not quickly. But more than the logistics of
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  Speaker 1: how quickly could he get the plane out of the museum,
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  Speaker 1: put the engine back in and make it fly ready.
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  Speaker 1: Beyond that, that's a huge problem. But the other, far
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  Speaker 1: bigger reason that it was truly impossible that Deek was
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  Speaker 1: the one flying that plane, even though clearly it was
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  Speaker 1: his plane the tail number said as much. The reason
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  Speaker 1: it couldn't have been him is because five full hours
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  Speaker 1: before that recorded flight, Deeke had passed away in his sleep.
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  Speaker 1: No one has ever been able to explain how Deeke's
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  Speaker 1: red stingerplane ended up over the skies of California that morning.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't make any sense.
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  Speaker 1: And today that warning letter that the manager from the
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  Speaker 1: John Wayne Airport sent to Deeke that ultimately his wife
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  Speaker 1: God and was so confused by that letter actually sits
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  Speaker 1: on display at the Deeke Slayton Memorial Space Museum. One
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  Speaker 1: morning in June of nineteen seventy two, a hospital administrator
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  Speaker 1: named Harold Michaels ran down the hallway of the Alameda
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  Speaker 1: Hospital in California. He was totally out of breath, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he was going as fast as he could, and as
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  Speaker 1: he turned the corner, he nearly knocked over a gurney,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't even stop to apologize to the person
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  Speaker 1: who was pushing it. He just kept on running as
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  Speaker 1: fast as he could until he got to the cafeteria
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  Speaker 1: where all the nurses and doctors were eating before they
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  Speaker 1: started their morning shift. And as soon as he got
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  Speaker 1: in there, like totally out of breath, he just yelled
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  Speaker 1: out to everybody to hey, pay attention, I have a
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  Speaker 1: very important announcement. And so immediately, like the room goes silent.
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  Speaker 1: All the staff they turned to look to see what's
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  Speaker 1: going on here, and all he said was the hospital
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  Speaker 1: needs to update its disaster plan. But as Harold for
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  Speaker 1: a second to catch his breath and let this information
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  Speaker 1: sort of be soaked in.
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  Speaker 2: By the audience.
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  Speaker 1: He looked around and he saw pretty much everybody was
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  Speaker 1: looking back at him with just looks of total confusion.
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  Speaker 2: On their face. And Harold definitely.
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  Speaker 1: Understood why they might react that way, because there really
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  Speaker 1: was no clear reason for Harold to be suddenly barging
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  Speaker 1: in here and demanding they update this plan. Like there
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  Speaker 1: hadn't been any recent mass casualty events or you know,
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  Speaker 1: natural disasters or anything. This was just like a normal
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  Speaker 1: day at the hospital, but here Harold was acting like
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  Speaker 1: there was some disaster at hand, and so there was
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  Speaker 1: this moment of.
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  Speaker 2: Like, wait, are you serious, Like what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But before anybody could really ask any questions, he just said, look,
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  Speaker 1: I want to make sure we are capable of handling
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  Speaker 1: like a mass casualty event, an emergency, like we need
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  Speaker 1: to have a better plan in place in case something
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  Speaker 1: really terrible happens.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to be caught flat footed.
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  Speaker 1: And so again there was like a sort of pause
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  Speaker 1: and everyone's still looking back at Harold, like what's prompting this?
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  Speaker 2: And at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Before anybody moved, somebody raised their hand and they were
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  Speaker 1: like why, But Harold, he was like, not having it.
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  Speaker 2: He just said, stop.
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  Speaker 1: Stop everything you're doing, like, put your breakfast away. I
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  Speaker 1: don't care what you think about this, right now, go
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  Speaker 1: update the disaster plan. Eight months later, on the morning
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  Speaker 1: of February seventh, nineteen seventy three, Harold sat around a
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  Speaker 1: conference table with the members of the hospital's disaster committee.
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  Speaker 2: They'd been holding meetings every month since the previous summer.
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  Speaker 1: To update their emergency procedures, and just two days ago,
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  Speaker 1: at an all staff meeting, they had unveiled the new
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  Speaker 1: disaster plan that Harold had frantically demanded, and so every
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  Speaker 1: doctor and nurse and clerk at the hospital had been
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  Speaker 1: briefed on the new procedures, and there was a drill
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  Speaker 1: scheduled for the very next morning to practice what to do.
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  Speaker 1: And Harold should have felt calmer knowing that they were
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  Speaker 1: now you know, officially prepared, at least more so than
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  Speaker 1: they had been before he demanded the update.
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  Speaker 2: But when the.
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  Speaker 1: Meeting wrapped, all Harold could focus on was the sort
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  Speaker 1: of nameless feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach.
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  Speaker 2: But after work that day, he still drove home.
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  Speaker 1: He ate dinner and sat on his couch and tried
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  Speaker 1: to relax, but he just couldn't. Fast forward to about
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  Speaker 1: eight thirty that night, and Harold was running out of
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  Speaker 1: his house, leaping in his car and driving as fast
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  Speaker 1: as he could back to the hospital. He had just
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  Speaker 1: gotten a phone call from the hospital saying that he had.
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  Speaker 2: To come back here right away. And when he got to.
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  Speaker 1: The hospital he saw there was a line of police
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  Speaker 1: officers directing traffic, and there were EMTs and firefighters rushing
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  Speaker 1: bleeding patients into the building on stretchers. I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: was madness. When Harold made it inside, the er was
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  Speaker 1: bustling with nurses rolling gurneys down the halls and prepping
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  Speaker 1: extra beds and carrying these big boxes of blood packs
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  Speaker 1: from the local blood bank. Harold counted at least six
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  Speaker 1: full surgical teams standing scrubbed and ready to go before
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  Speaker 1: any patients had even arrived. And then at this point
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  Speaker 1: a nurse grabbed Harold and told him that the hospital's
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  Speaker 1: phone lines had gone down about thirty minutes ago, but
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  Speaker 1: more than one hundred off duty doctors and staff members
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  Speaker 1: had shown up immediately when they heard the news, without
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  Speaker 1: even waiting to be officially called in, and when they
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  Speaker 1: got to the hospital they went straight to their stations
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  Speaker 1: and knew exactly what to do because they'd all been
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  Speaker 1: preparing for that big disaster drill in the morning. And
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  Speaker 1: so as Harold is standing here sort of processing the scene,
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  Speaker 1: he watched as EMTs wheeled in a man with third
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  Speaker 1: degree burns all over his body, and right away a
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  Speaker 1: team of doctors swooped in and guided him into a
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  Speaker 1: trauma room, and the rest of the doctors all waited
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  Speaker 1: in an orderly line to take over the next patients
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  Speaker 1: as soon as they came through the doors. And Harold
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  Speaker 1: couldn't help but feel really vindicated and also a little
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  Speaker 1: spooked because this was all happening exactly as he knew
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  Speaker 1: it would it would turn out out on that morning,
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  Speaker 1: you know, months earlier, when Harold bolted into the cafeteria
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  Speaker 1: and told everybody to stop what they were doing and
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  Speaker 1: update the disaster plan.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that morning, Harold.
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  Speaker 1: Had woken up from this incredibly lucid, vivid dream, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: the most vivid dream he had.
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  Speaker 2: Had in his whole life.
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  Speaker 1: In this dream, a plane had crashed into the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the city, leaving hundreds of people dead and horribly injured,
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  Speaker 1: and it was basically up to his hospital to save people.
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  Speaker 1: And so that was why he'd been so insistent that
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  Speaker 1: morning on updating the emergency plan, because he felt like,
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  Speaker 1: if that really happened like in the dream, if there
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  Speaker 1: was a plane crash, I don't know if we have
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  Speaker 1: the capacity to handle it like that, many patients all
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  Speaker 1: at once, I don't know if we can do that,
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  Speaker 1: And so we better update things right now. And so
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: fast forward eight months to February seventh, nineteen seventy three.
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  Speaker 1: Literally just hours before Harold's hospital was going to conduct
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  Speaker 1: a drill to practice the new disaster plan they'd come
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  Speaker 1: up with, a navy jet had smashed into a four
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  Speaker 1: story apartment building in the middle of the city. But
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  Speaker 1: because of Harold's dream, which ultimately prompted him to force
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  Speaker 1: his hospital to update their disaster plan. Because of that, well,
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  Speaker 1: when this actual plane crash happened, Harold's hospital and his
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  Speaker 1: whole staff were ready. Initial estimates at the crash scene
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  Speaker 1: had predicted at least fifty people would die, but thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Harold's staff and their updated disaster plan, only eleven
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  Speaker 1: people actually did.
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• 24:46
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• 24:49
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• 24:55
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• 24:58
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