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- 0:00Speaker 1: Today, we're going to look at three places you can't
- 0:02Speaker 1: go and people who went there anyways. But before we
- 0:05Speaker 1: get into today's stories, if you're a fan of the strange, dark,
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- 0:23Speaker 1: weekly uploads. Alright, let's get into today's stories. In the 1960s,
- 0:39Speaker 1: Alan Burkhart opened a riverfront restaurant in Beaumont, Texas. And
- 0:43Speaker 1: for the next 50 plus years, his customers would eat burgers,
- 0:46Speaker 1: drink beers, and on super hot days, they would jump
- 0:49Speaker 1: off the pier into the river to cool down. But
- 0:51Speaker 1: one day in June of 2015, while Alan was in
- 0:54Speaker 1: his restaurant looking out the back window, he saw something
- 0:57Speaker 1: strange in the river. When he went outside to get
- 0:59Speaker 1: a better look, he noticed his customers who were eating
- 1:02Speaker 1: outside had also noticed this strange thing, and now they
- 1:05Speaker 1: were standing up and nervously watching it as it floated by.
- 1:08Speaker 1: Alan immediately yelled out to everyone to not go swimming, obviously,
- 1:12Speaker 1: based on what they were seeing, and then he went
- 1:14Speaker 1: back inside and made a sign that said no swimming,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and he posted it on the pier.
- 1:19Speaker 2: A few weeks later, on July 2nd, a 28-year-old.
- 1:22Speaker 1: Local man named Tommy Woodward and his girlfriend, Victoria LeBlanc,
- 1:26Speaker 1: arrived at Alan's restaurant for a fun night out. After
- 1:29Speaker 1: several hours of drinking and playing pool, Tommy and his
- 1:32Speaker 1: girlfriend made their way over to the bar and had
- 1:34Speaker 1: a seat. At which point, Tommy began telling his girlfriend
- 1:37Speaker 1: that he planned on going swimming in the river that night.
- 1:40Speaker 1: The bartender overheard him and said, Tommy, you can't go swimming.
- 1:43Speaker 2: In the river anymore.
- 1:44Speaker 1: But Tommy was a bit of a rule breaker and
- 1:46Speaker 1: said he didn't care.
- 1:47Speaker 2: He was going to go anyways.
- 1:49Speaker 1: The bartender began pleading with him and even got other
- 1:52Speaker 1: staff members of the restaurant to talk sense into Tommy
- 1:55Speaker 1: that he should not get in the water. But eventually,
- 1:57Speaker 1: Tommy just stood up. He grabbed his girlfriend's hand, left
- 2:00Speaker 1: the restaurant, and began walking down towards the pier. The
- 2:03Speaker 1: bartender at this point just kind of rolled her eyes
- 2:05Speaker 1: and thought, I can't do anything to stop him, and
- 2:07Speaker 1: so she went back to her bartending duties.
- 2:09Speaker 2: When Tommy and Victoria got down.
- 2:11Speaker 1: To the pier, the black water was quiet and calm
- 2:14Speaker 1: as Tommy took off his shirt and removed his valuables
- 2:16Speaker 1: from his pockets. Right before Tommy was about to jump
- 2:19Speaker 1: into the water, Victoria stopped him and said she thought
- 2:22Speaker 1: she saw something moving underneath the pier. But Tommy just
- 2:25Speaker 1: laughed and said he didn't care and jumped into the
- 2:27Speaker 1: water and disappeared below the surface. Immediately, the water around
- 2:30Speaker 1: Tommy seemed to erupt like a bomb had gone off
- 2:33Speaker 1: underneath him. When Tommy came back up to the surface,
- 2:35Speaker 1: he was screaming and trying to swim back to the pier.
- 2:38Speaker 1: But before he could get there, something pulled him under
- 2:40Speaker 1: the water. And then a few seconds later, Tommy came
- 2:43Speaker 1: back up again. And this time, Victoria could see the
- 2:46Speaker 1: left side of his torso was bleeding profusely. And so
- 2:49Speaker 1: she instinctively leapt into the water to try to save him.
- 2:52Speaker 1: And Tommy, even though he knew he needed help, he
- 2:55Speaker 1: said to her, get back on land, save yourself.
- 2:57Speaker 2: And so she obliged. She climbed back onto the pier.
- 3:00Speaker 1: And when she turned around, she caught a final glimpse
- 3:03Speaker 1: of Tommy as he was pulled back under the water.
- 3:05Speaker 2: And this time he did not come back up again.
- 3:07Speaker 1: The bartender had heard screaming and so ran down with
- 3:10Speaker 1: a flashlight to the pier. And when she got there,
- 3:13Speaker 1: Victoria was hysterical and she was yelling Tommy's name. looking
- 3:16Speaker 1: out over the water and so the bartender at this
- 3:19Speaker 1: point is reasonably certain she knows what happened to Tommy
- 3:22Speaker 1: but if by some miracle he's still alive she wants
- 3:25Speaker 1: to find him and so she raises her flashlight and
- 3:27Speaker 1: she began scanning the now totally calm Blackwater and as
- 3:31Speaker 1: she's scanning she finds him he's floating face down way
- 3:34Speaker 1: off in the middle of the river And as soon
- 3:36Speaker 1: as the flashlight hits him, something pulls his body under.
- 3:40Speaker 2: The water and he disappears from view.
- 3:42Speaker 1: It was no secret that the river that ran next
- 3:44Speaker 1: to Alan's restaurant was home to alligators, but these alligators
- 3:47Speaker 1: were small and they didn't bother anybody.
- 3:49Speaker 2: And so the locals really didn't have any issues swimming
- 3:52Speaker 2: with them.
- 3:52Speaker 1: In fact, they had nicknamed two of the alligators that
- 3:55Speaker 1: were seen the most often.
- 3:57Speaker 2: They named them Cheeto and Marshmallow.
- 3:59Speaker 1: But on that day in June of 2015, when Alan
- 4:02Speaker 1: and the other guests saw this thing out in the river,
- 4:05Speaker 1: What they were seeing was a monster alligator, the likes
- 4:08Speaker 1: of which they had never seen before in this river.
- 4:10Speaker 1: It was at least 11 feet long and over 400 pounds,
- 4:14Speaker 1: and that summer it decided to make the underside of
- 4:17Speaker 1: Allen's Pier its home. And so that night when Tommy
- 4:20Speaker 1: leapt into the water, it was this monster alligator's feeding time.
- 4:24Speaker 2: And so Tommy became its dinner.
- 4:25Speaker 1: About two hours after Tommy was attacked, what was left
- 4:28Speaker 1: of him was recovered from the river. Tommy became the
- 4:31Speaker 1: first alligator-related fatality in Texas in nearly 200 years. Just
- 4:39Speaker 1: north of San Francisco, California, lies Lake Berryessa, which is
- 4:43Speaker 1: a massive freshwater reserve that provides drinking water and hydroelectricity
- 4:48Speaker 1: to hundreds of thousands of people.
- 4:49Speaker 2: The lake is not a natural occurrence.
- 4:51Speaker 1: A dam was built in the area in the 1950s,
- 4:54Speaker 1: and after it was in place, the water that pooled
- 4:57Speaker 1: above it became Lake Berryessa. During the dam's construction, the
- 5:01Speaker 1: engineers realized the structure would not be enough to keep
- 5:04Speaker 1: all the water in if the lake were to flood.
- 5:07Speaker 1: To solve this problem, the engineers installed what's called a
- 5:09Speaker 1: spillway in the middle of the lake. A spillway is
- 5:12Speaker 1: like a huge drain. When the water levels in the
- 5:15Speaker 1: lake are normal, none of the water will go into
- 5:18Speaker 1: this drain. But when water levels reach a certain point,
- 5:21Speaker 1: the water, instead of spilling over the side of the dam,
- 5:24Speaker 1: will spill into this spillway, and it will travel 200
- 5:27Speaker 1: feet straight down this 78-foot-wide pipe, and when it reaches
- 5:30Speaker 1: the bottom, the pipe bends sharply to the right, and
- 5:32Speaker 1: the water is shot out on the other side of
- 5:34Speaker 1: the dam into a creek. On a summer day in 1997,
- 5:36Speaker 1: 41-year-old graduate student Emily Shuelig was swimming in the recreational
- 5:42Speaker 1: side of Lake Berryessa. That evening, before she got out
- 5:45Speaker 1: of the water, she decided she wanted to have a
- 5:47Speaker 1: closer look at the spillway, which at the time, because
- 5:50Speaker 1: the water levels had risen high enough, water was pouring
- 5:54Speaker 1: down into the spillway. So Emily turned around and began
- 5:57Speaker 1: casually swimming away from the recreational area towards the center
- 6:01Speaker 1: of the lake. At some point, she would have seen
- 6:03Speaker 1: signs poking out of the water, and she would have
- 6:05Speaker 1: seen them on land telling her to stay back. After
- 6:08Speaker 1: passing those signs, she would have reached a long line
- 6:11Speaker 1: of red caution buoys that were the last line of
- 6:14Speaker 1: defense to try to keep people back from the spillway.
- 6:17Speaker 1: But Emily went under those buoys and continued on towards
- 6:20Speaker 1: this huge drain. Meanwhile, the other swimmers that had seen
- 6:23Speaker 1: Emily take off towards the middle of the lake, they
- 6:25Speaker 1: didn't think she would actually get close to the spillway.
- 6:28Speaker 1: Nobody went close to the spillway, and so nobody tried
- 6:31Speaker 1: to stop her. Around 6.10 p.m., Emily made it to
- 6:34Speaker 1: right before the edge of the spillway. it would have
- 6:37Speaker 1: been deafeningly loud as 360,000 gallons of water poured over
- 6:42Speaker 1: the edge into the spillway every second. Emily most likely
- 6:46Speaker 1: was trying to get right up to the edge and
- 6:48Speaker 1: then grab that outer cement lip and kind of anchor
- 6:51Speaker 1: herself and then lean over the edge and get a
- 6:53Speaker 1: look down into the hole. But what ended up happening
- 6:55Speaker 1: is as she got closer and closer to the edge,
- 6:58Speaker 1: the current picked up so dramatically that it began pulling
- 7:01Speaker 1: her down into the hole.
- 7:02Speaker 2: And so by the time she's over the cement.
- 7:04Speaker 1: Lip, She had already turned around, realizing her mistake, and
- 7:07Speaker 1: was trying desperately to swim away from the spillway.
- 7:11Speaker 2: But it was too late.
- 7:12Speaker 1: Her legs got whipped around and sucked down into the spillway,
- 7:15Speaker 1: and she managed to grab onto the lip, the outer
- 7:18Speaker 1: lip of the spillway, with her legs now in the spillway.
- 7:21Speaker 1: Thousands and thousands of gallons of water are pouring down
- 7:24Speaker 1: on her face, and so she can't pull herself back up.
- 7:26Speaker 2: So she's pinned inside the spillway.
- 7:29Speaker 1: People on land noticed this happening to her, But they
- 7:32Speaker 1: realized there was nothing they could do to help her.
- 7:34Speaker 1: If they tried to go down there and pull her out,
- 7:37Speaker 1: they would get sucked in too. And so they called
- 7:39Speaker 1: the authorities who have the right equipment to pull her out.
- 7:42Speaker 1: But by the time they got out there, it was
- 7:43Speaker 1: too late. Emily had managed to hang on to that
- 7:46Speaker 1: edge for 20 minutes. But finally, the water overpowered her,
- 7:50Speaker 1: she lost her grip, and she fell backwards down the
- 7:53Speaker 1: 200-foot chute to her death. On August 6, 2018, a
- 8:01Speaker 1: manager at a grocery store in Lancaster, California, which is
- 8:04Speaker 1: a town about an hour north of Los Angeles, started
- 8:07Speaker 1: getting complaints from his staff and from customers about a
- 8:10Speaker 1: terrible smell coming from the front of the building. The manager,
- 8:13Speaker 1: who had come in the back door that day and
- 8:15Speaker 1: so hadn't smelled anything, began walking through the store towards
- 8:18Speaker 1: the front in order to investigate. He only made it
- 8:21Speaker 1: to the cash registers before he had to throw his
- 8:23Speaker 1: arm over his mouth and his nose because the whole
- 8:25Speaker 1: front half of the store reeked. The manager's first thought
- 8:28Speaker 1: was that food must have somehow fallen somewhere out of
- 8:31Speaker 1: view and it was rotting and that was causing the smell.
- 8:34Speaker 1: But when he went past the cash registers and went
- 8:36Speaker 1: out the front doors, the smell got exponentially worse and
- 8:39Speaker 1: he noticed the smell was predominantly coming from this brown
- 8:42Speaker 1: liquid on the ground that seemed to be leaking out
- 8:44Speaker 1: of the base of one of the pillars that lined
- 8:47Speaker 1: the front of the store. And so the manager thought, well,
- 8:49Speaker 1: it can't be food that's causing the smell. It's gotta
- 8:52Speaker 1: be a sewer pipe leak that's happened right underneath this
- 8:54Speaker 1: pillar and it's seeping up through the cement And that's
- 8:57Speaker 1: what's causing the smell.
- 8:58Speaker 2: And so the manager went back inside the store and
- 9:00Speaker 2: he called a plumber. And then a couple of hours later,
- 9:02Speaker 2: the plumber showed up.
- 9:03Speaker 1: The manager pointed at the brown liquid out on the
- 9:05Speaker 1: front and explained what he thought was going on. And
- 9:08Speaker 1: the plumber looked at it and then looked at the
- 9:10Speaker 1: manager and said, There's no sewer pipe underneath here. So
- 9:13Speaker 1: whatever that liquid is, it's coming from inside the pillar.
- 9:16Speaker 1: And so the manager was stumped because this pillar and
- 9:18Speaker 1: all the others in the front of the store were
- 9:21Speaker 1: purely decorative. There's no reason anything would be leaking out
- 9:24Speaker 1: from inside of them. There was nothing inside of them.
- 9:26Speaker 1: And so the manager asked the plumber to pull off
- 9:29Speaker 1: one of the bricks around the area where this liquid
- 9:31Speaker 1: was coming from so they could see what was on
- 9:33Speaker 1: the other side. And so the plumber got his crowbar
- 9:35Speaker 1: and he began prying off one of the bricks and
- 9:38Speaker 1: then once it was loose enough he pulled the brick
- 9:39Speaker 1: away revealing an opening into the pillar and the two
- 9:42Speaker 1: men got down and they looked inside and what they
- 9:45Speaker 1: saw horrified them.
- 9:47Speaker 2: And they immediately backed up and they called the police.
- 9:49Speaker 1: Five days earlier a 35 year old man named Ray
- 9:52Speaker 1: Rivera was pulled over by Lancaster California police on suspicion
- 9:56Speaker 1: of driving a stolen vehicle. As soon as the officer
- 9:59Speaker 1: got out of their cruise and began approaching Ray's vehicle,
- 10:02Speaker 1: Ray peeled off down the road, turned the corner, and
- 10:04Speaker 1: was gone. The officer immediately got back in their cruiser
- 10:07Speaker 1: and took off after Ray, but he had gotten a
- 10:10Speaker 1: huge jump start and he had fled into a highly
- 10:13Speaker 1: populated and busy area where it would be relatively easy
- 10:16Speaker 1: to blend in and disappear. The officer called for backup
- 10:19Speaker 1: and before long, there were dozens of other cop cars
- 10:22Speaker 1: in the area looking for Ray, but no one could
- 10:24Speaker 1: find him. A little while later, the police heard over
- 10:27Speaker 1: the radio that a car matching the description of the
- 10:30Speaker 1: one Ray had been driving had just crashed into a
- 10:33Speaker 1: local grocery store. And so the police head over to
- 10:35Speaker 1: the grocery store and sure enough, there's Ray's white pickup
- 10:38Speaker 1: truck crashed into the side of the building but Ray
- 10:41Speaker 1: is nowhere.
- 10:41Speaker 2: To be found.
- 10:42Speaker 1: The police began asking witnesses at the store if they
- 10:45Speaker 1: had seen the man driving the white pickup truck, and
- 10:47Speaker 1: a few said they had. They said after he crashed,
- 10:50Speaker 1: he leapt out of the vehicle and he ran inside
- 10:52Speaker 1: the grocery store and then went up a flight of
- 10:54Speaker 1: stairs to the staff-only area. The police went inside the
- 10:58Speaker 1: grocery store and searched the staff-only area and they searched.
- 11:02Speaker 2: The rest of the grocery store, but he wasn't there.
- 11:04Speaker 1: And so they assumed at some point after going inside,
- 11:08Speaker 1: he managed to slip back out again and had escaped
- 11:10Speaker 1: on foot. And so the police, just as a precaution,
- 11:12Speaker 1: stayed outside of this grocery store for several more hours
- 11:16Speaker 1: in case if Ray was in there, they would catch
- 11:18Speaker 1: him trying to leave. But after a couple of hours,
- 11:20Speaker 1: he never did. And so they put out a warrant
- 11:22Speaker 1: for his arrest and they left. Well, it would turn
- 11:24Speaker 1: out Ray had run inside the grocery store, but he
- 11:28Speaker 1: had never left. After running up to that staff-only area,
- 11:31Speaker 1: he found a crawl space and he hid inside of
- 11:33Speaker 1: it for several hours until the police left.
- 11:36Speaker 2: And then at some point.
- 11:37Speaker 1: That evening, he decided he wanted to find a better
- 11:39Speaker 1: hiding spot, and so he made his way onto the roof. Now,
- 11:42Speaker 1: it's not entirely clear how he did that. Either the
- 11:45Speaker 1: crawl space he was in directly connected to the roof,
- 11:48Speaker 1: or he got out of the crawlspace and then found
- 11:50Speaker 1: his way onto the roof another way. But regardless, he
- 11:52Speaker 1: found his way onto the roof, and when he got
- 11:54Speaker 1: up there, he realized the roof was totally flat until
- 11:58Speaker 1: you got to the very front edge of the building,
- 12:00Speaker 1: the part that looked down into the parking lot. There,
- 12:03Speaker 1: on the roof, was this small structure that was built
- 12:05Speaker 1: up just on the front end of the roof that
- 12:08Speaker 1: gave the impression, from the parking lot looking up, that
- 12:11Speaker 1: this building was a lot bigger than it really was.
- 12:14Speaker 1: On the backside of this phony structure was a door
- 12:17Speaker 1: that was accessible from the roof.
- 12:19Speaker 2: Ray saw this access door and ran over to it.
- 12:21Speaker 2: He tried the handle and it was unlocked. And so
- 12:23Speaker 2: he opened it up and he went inside.
- 12:25Speaker 1: Now this attic-like space that sat on the front of
- 12:28Speaker 1: the building really didn't have that much of a purpose
- 12:30Speaker 1: to it. However, it did provide access to the insides
- 12:33Speaker 1: of all of the pillars that line the front of
- 12:36Speaker 1: the store. And so it's believed that Ray, as soon
- 12:39Speaker 1: as he walked inside, saw these openings and believed one
- 12:42Speaker 1: of them would be the perfect hiding place. And so
- 12:44Speaker 1: he lowered himself feet first into one of these hollow chutes.
- 12:48Speaker 1: He got his feet and his legs, his hips, and
- 12:50Speaker 1: most of his torso into this tight 9 inch by
- 12:52Speaker 1: 17 inch space. but his shoulders were too broad. They
- 12:56Speaker 1: would not fit into the pillar. And so he raised
- 12:59Speaker 1: one arm over his head, and he kept his other
- 13:01Speaker 1: arm pinned by his side in order to make himself
- 13:03Speaker 1: as narrow as possible.
- 13:05Speaker 2: And this worked.
- 13:05Speaker 1: Inch by inch, he began sliding deeper and deeper into
- 13:08Speaker 1: this two-story tall pillar until he was completely out of sight.
- 13:12Speaker 1: But as soon as his shoulders had gone down into
- 13:14Speaker 1: that pillar, he would have realized he had made a
- 13:17Speaker 1: grave mistake.
- 13:18Speaker 2: With one arm.
- 13:19Speaker 1: Pinned above his head and the other pinned by his side,
- 13:21Speaker 1: he would not have been able to pull himself back
- 13:24Speaker 1: up out of this narrow space.
- 13:26Speaker 2: He was stuck.
- 13:26Speaker 1: And so he probably began squirming and trying to use
- 13:29Speaker 1: his feet to try to get back up into the
- 13:31Speaker 1: attic space, but all of that movement only made him
- 13:34Speaker 1: slip farther and farther down into this pillar until his
- 13:37Speaker 1: feet touched the ground at the absolute bottom. And so
- 13:40Speaker 1: not only is he already in this totally compromised position
- 13:43Speaker 1: that would have made it hard to breathe, he was
- 13:45Speaker 1: also in such a narrow space that the walls of
- 13:48Speaker 1: this pillar literally were crushing his chest, making it nearly
- 13:52Speaker 1: impossible to get a full breath of air. And when
- 13:55Speaker 1: he screamed out for help, nobody would have heard him
- 13:57Speaker 1: because he was entombed inside of multiple layers of cement
- 14:01Speaker 1: and brick. Also, making an already horrible situation that much worse, Lancaster,
- 14:06Speaker 1: California was experiencing a very significant heat wave that month.
- 14:10Speaker 1: And so all day long, the sun would have been
- 14:12Speaker 1: blazing down on the outside of that pillar heating up
- 14:15Speaker 1: the inside like an oven. Five days after Ray got trapped,
- 14:19Speaker 1: the plumber removed that brick on the pillar, and he
- 14:22Speaker 1: and the store manager bent down and looked, and they
- 14:25Speaker 1: saw Ray's leg. The smelly brown liquid that had been
- 14:28Speaker 1: coming out of the pillar that had alerted everyone to
- 14:30Speaker 1: this in the first place was purge fluid, which is
- 14:33Speaker 1: something that comes out.
- 14:34Speaker 2: Of a decomposing body. So that's going to do it, guys.
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