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Speaker 1: One night in nineteen forty six, a Brazilian farmer was
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Speaker 1: walking along this dirt path when suddenly he started feeling
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Speaker 1: like he was being watched. And so he looked to
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Speaker 1: his right and to his left into the trees of
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Speaker 1: the rainforest on either side of him, but he couldn't
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Speaker 1: see any animals or people. There was no movement. It
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Speaker 1: was eerily quiet and dark, and so the farmer told
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Speaker 1: himself that he was okay, just keep going, get home.
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Speaker 1: And so as he's walking, he begins speeding up faster
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Speaker 1: and faster because the anxiety is growing inside of him
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Speaker 1: because he can't shake this feeling that he's being watched.
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Speaker 1: And so finally, when he's close enough to his village,
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Speaker 1: he just starts running, fearing that whatever or whoever is
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Speaker 1: watching him is going to jump out and grab him,
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Speaker 1: and so he speeds to his house. He literally dives
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Speaker 1: through an open window into his house. He shuts the window,
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Speaker 1: he makes sure all the doors are locked, and he's
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Speaker 1: standing there in his house. It's pitch black, and he's thinking, okay,
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Speaker 1: I'm safe. But suddenly he realizes not only has this
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Speaker 1: feeling not gone away, he still feels like he's being watched,
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Speaker 1: But whoever or whatever is watching, he knows without looking
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Speaker 1: that they're right outside of his house, outside the window
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Speaker 1: to his left, and when he turned to look, he
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Speaker 1: was right. What happened next would prompt a full scale
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Speaker 1: let's get into today's story. On March fourth, nineteen forty six,
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Speaker 1: nearly every resident of a rural Brazilian town called Arasa
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Speaker 1: Iguama packed up a few days worth of food and
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Speaker 1: drink and headed south to the nearest big city to
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Speaker 1: celebrate the festival of Carnival. This festival is an opportunity
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Speaker 1: for folks to cut loose and eat good food right
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Speaker 1: before most of them go into a religious fasting period.
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Speaker 1: One resident who opted not to join the fun at
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Speaker 1: this festival was a forty four year old man named
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Speaker 1: joe Al Prestige Filu. Joe Al was a farmer. He
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Speaker 1: had five kids. He was a very quiet guy, and
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Speaker 1: he did not enjoy things like the festival for carnival.
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Speaker 1: The crowds and the noise made him anxious, and he
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Speaker 1: really hated dancing, which there was a lot of at
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Speaker 1: these festivals. Instead, Joao would rather spend his spare time
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Speaker 1: out in nature. And so when joe Al's friends and
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Speaker 1: family and everybody else disappeared to head off to this festival,
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Speaker 1: joe Au did just that. He and his best friend
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Speaker 1: packed up Joao's horsing and they traveled across the dirt
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Speaker 1: roads through the woods to the nearby Tiette River, where
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Speaker 1: they spent the day fishing for catfish. And as joe
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Speaker 1: Ao stood on the rocks casting out its line, he
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Speaker 1: listened to the birds sing and the parrots swooping by.
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Speaker 1: It was beautiful and sunny out. I mean, this was
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Speaker 1: a perfect day for joe out as sunset drew near. Though,
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Speaker 1: both Joao and his best friend knew that while the
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Speaker 1: rainforest they were in was beautiful during the day. At
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Speaker 1: night it could become quite hazardous with the animals that
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Speaker 1: come out at night, and so they knew they needed
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Speaker 1: to leave, and so they packed up all the fish
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Speaker 1: they caught back into Joao's cart, and then the two
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Speaker 1: of them hopped onto the cart and began making the
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Speaker 1: journey back towards the town of arasar I Bwama. When
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Speaker 1: the pair got to a split in the road, Joe
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Speaker 1: Al's best friend hopped off the cart and walked on
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Speaker 1: foot down one path because his house was actually just
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Speaker 1: outside of the town, and Joe Aw still in his
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Speaker 1: cart with his horse, said by to his friend and
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Speaker 1: went the other direction. Now by this point the sun
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Speaker 1: had completely set and so it was totally dark out
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Speaker 1: as Joe Ao is going down the dirt road in
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Speaker 1: the final stretch towards his town. At this time in
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Speaker 1: nineteen forty six, rasa Iguama was a beautiful place, but
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Speaker 1: by no means a modern place. They had no running water,
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Speaker 1: no electricity, there was no sewage, no paved roads, no
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Speaker 1: access to main roads, and nobody had a telephone. It
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Speaker 1: was basically like this little patch of civilization with about
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Speaker 1: one hundred people living there. There was a church in
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Speaker 1: the middle of the town and a couple of small
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Speaker 1: huts that kind of sat around it, and Joao and
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Speaker 1: his family lived in one of those huts. Joe Al
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Speaker 1: usually loved walking along or traveling along this particular stretch
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Speaker 1: of dirt road, especially at night, like he was doing
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Speaker 1: right now. He really enjoyed looking up at the stars
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Speaker 1: and listening to the animals off in the forest that
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Speaker 1: he couldn't see. But this night, joe Al just had
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Speaker 1: a bad feeling as he was making this final approach
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Speaker 1: towards his town. Now, remember there there's almost no one
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Speaker 1: in the town. They're all at this festival, so it's
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Speaker 1: kind of like a ghost town in the middle of
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Speaker 1: a forest. But joe Au, as he's going down the
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Speaker 1: s dirt road and he can see the church up ahead,
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Speaker 1: he's a couple hundred feet away, he began getting this
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Speaker 1: very unnerving sense that he was being watched, and so
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Speaker 1: joe Oo, as he's in his cart, began looking into
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Speaker 1: the trees and all around him, wondering if maybe an
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Speaker 1: animal or a person was nearby, but there was no one. Finally,
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Speaker 1: Joao actually reached the church and he could see his
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Speaker 1: little house, and he could also see that his wife,
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Speaker 1: who was at the festival, had opened up one of
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Speaker 1: the windows just slightly so he could open it up
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Speaker 1: the rest of the way and crawl into the house
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Speaker 1: when he was back from fishing, because she had locked
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Speaker 1: the doors when she left, and so by this point
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Speaker 1: joe Al was trying to be very calm and collected
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Speaker 1: despite this stress of feeling like he's being watched. But
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Speaker 1: when he saw that window and he saw how close
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Speaker 1: he was to his house, he basically just had the
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Speaker 1: horse sprint the rest of the way to his home.
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Speaker 1: He just wanted to get off the streets, and so
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Speaker 1: finally Joeu he reaches his house, he crawls in through
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Speaker 1: the window. He shuts it behind him, and immediately Joao
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Speaker 1: expected to feel totally relieved that he was now behind
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Speaker 1: locked and closed doors and windows. He was safe. But
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Speaker 1: despite being inside of his home, he still had this
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Speaker 1: sense that there was someone or something around him that
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Speaker 1: was watching him. Joe Al, like many other residents of
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Speaker 1: this village, was fairly superstitious. There was an old abandoned
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Speaker 1: mine that was near the town, and Joao and his
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Speaker 1: peers had grown up hearing stories about some monster that
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Speaker 1: lived in the mine that would come out at night
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Speaker 1: and roam the forest, and older people in this village
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Speaker 1: would talk about this ancient serpent called Boitata that would
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Speaker 1: come out at night and it would appear in a
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Speaker 1: burst of fire. And so joe Aw he's thinking about
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Speaker 1: the mine and these demons and ghosts that roam in
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Speaker 1: the forest, and he's all alone because everyone's at this festival,
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Speaker 1: and he doesn't feel safe inside of his house, and
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Speaker 1: so he's really starting to panic. And it's at this
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Speaker 1: moment that he suddenly feels this sense that whatever or
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Speaker 1: whoever has been watching him is right out his window
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Speaker 1: to his left. And so joe Al, as he's turning
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Speaker 1: to look out the window, he's anticipating seeing a person
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Speaker 1: out there, or maybe a jaguar or some other animal
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Speaker 1: that's followed him from the rainforest. But when joe Al
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Speaker 1: turns and looks out the window into the dark night,
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Speaker 1: what he sees right outside of his property was so
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Speaker 1: terrifying that for a second, Joe Al couldn't even breathe,
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Speaker 1: and he just stood there staring at this thing. And
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Speaker 1: then he tried to put his hands up to protect himself,
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Speaker 1: back to the story. Minutes later, Joe al would come
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Speaker 1: stumbling out of his front door out into the dark night.
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Speaker 1: He's got a big blanket wrapped around him, and he
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Speaker 1: was just streaming incoherently. And as he streamed all this nonsense,
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Speaker 1: he began running in this kind of zigzag pattern with
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Speaker 1: no clear destination in mind. It was just like this
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Speaker 1: mindless running all through the village. And as he's running,
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Speaker 1: he's got no shoes on, and he's stepping on sharp
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Speaker 1: rocks and glass and trash. He's cutting his feet up horribly,
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Speaker 1: but he doesn't seem to even notice. And so as
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Speaker 1: he's doing this, he's causing this huge scene. But everybody's gone.
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Speaker 1: It's a ghost town. It's just him in this abandoned
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Speaker 1: village in the middle of a rainforest in Brazil. But
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Speaker 1: eventually joe Ao kind of calmed himself down and ran
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Speaker 1: to his sister's house, Marie, because he noticed there was
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Speaker 1: a lamp on inside of her house, and he was
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Speaker 1: hoping that maybe she too had stayed back from the festival,
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Speaker 1: and it would turn out Marie had not gone to
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Speaker 1: the festival. She too did not really like big gatherings
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Speaker 1: like that, and so she was home and so Marie
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Speaker 1: was in her kitchen when she began hearing outside this
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Speaker 1: horrible screaming sound, almost guttural sounds coming from someone or
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Speaker 1: some animal out there. And then before she could even
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Speaker 1: figure out what it was, she heard this loud thud
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Speaker 1: against her door. Marie was terrified, and she ran to
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Speaker 1: her front window to look out and see what it
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Speaker 1: was that had just collided with her door, and what
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Speaker 1: she saw made no sense. It was her brother, joe Al,
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Speaker 1: but he was wrapped in that big blanket and his
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Speaker 1: feet were all bloody, and he was screaming at the
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Speaker 1: top of his lungs, but he wasn't saying anything. He
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Speaker 1: was just kind of babbling. And so Marie was about
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Speaker 1: to run over and open the door for her brother,
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Speaker 1: but right before she did, as she's looking out the window,
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Speaker 1: Joou turned and looked at her, and when he did,
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Speaker 1: she screamed because his eyes looked so alien. They were
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Speaker 1: wide and totally unfocused, and she thought, that can't leave
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Speaker 1: my brother, what's wrong with him? But she would go
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Speaker 1: over and open the door, because, after all, it is
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Speaker 1: her brother, And so she opens the door. Joel kind
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Speaker 1: of falls into the room and began writhing around on
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Speaker 1: the ground, continuing this scream he was omitting that didn't
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Speaker 1: even seem human, and the whole time Marie is trying
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Speaker 1: to ask him what's wrong, what's going on here? She's
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Speaker 1: scanning him, and besides the cutsole over his feet, he
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Speaker 1: didn't appear to have other injuries. And so eventually Marie
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Speaker 1: just knelt down and she was about to grab joe
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Speaker 1: Al and try to kind of stop him from moving around,
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Speaker 1: to just look at him and try to have a
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Speaker 1: conversation with him. But before she grabbed him, joe Al
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Speaker 1: rolled over and his lips opened up, exposing his teeth,
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Speaker 1: and he kind of grimaced at her with those wild,
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Speaker 1: unfocused eyes, and again Marie's kind of backed up in horror,
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Speaker 1: Who is this? What's happened to my brother? And as
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Speaker 1: Marie stood up to get away from joe Au, joe Al,
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Speaker 1: still with that sickening grin, with his teeth exposed, had
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Speaker 1: this kind of low hiss come out of his mouth,
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Speaker 1: and so Marie, thinking he was trying to talk, she
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Speaker 1: leaned in and threw this hiss. She heard him repeating,
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Speaker 1: it burns, it burns, and so Marie, thinking her brother
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Speaker 1: must have been burned in, instinctively began removing the blanket
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Speaker 1: and pulling his clothes off to find the source of
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Speaker 1: this burn on her brother. But besides the cuts all
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Speaker 1: over his feet, as she's looking at his body, his
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Speaker 1: skin looked totally normal. He looked completely unhurt. And so
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Speaker 1: Marie turned up to look at joe Al's face again
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Speaker 1: to ask him more questions and hopes maybe he could
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Speaker 1: tell her something. And it was at that moment she
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Speaker 1: noticed that even though he didn't seem to have any
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Speaker 1: other injuries, his complexion on his face was now starting
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Speaker 1: to change. Now, joe Al's cheeks had turned this kind
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Speaker 1: of dark purple and almost looked like they were starting
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Speaker 1: to swell. And so at this point, Marie knew, Okay,
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Speaker 1: I can't handle this. I don't know what's going on here,
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Speaker 1: and so she would stand up and just kind of
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Speaker 1: back away from joe Al, who's still got that grimace
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Speaker 1: with his teeth exposed and his purple cheeks he's staring
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Speaker 1: up at Marie and Marie she finally backs out, and
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Speaker 1: she goes out the front door and she begins running
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Speaker 1: to the other side of town. Marie knew that there
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Speaker 1: were two other men who had stayed home from this festival.
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Speaker 1: It was the town sheriff and the town doctor whose
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Speaker 1: name was Arasi Gumiji, and those two men lived close
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Speaker 1: together on the other side of town, and when Marie
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Speaker 1: arrived in front of their homes and began pounding on
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Speaker 1: their doors and yelling for help, the two men quickly
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Speaker 1: came outside, at which point Marie tried to explain what
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Speaker 1: was happening to her brother, but she didn't really have
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Speaker 1: the words, and so she just said, he needs your help,
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Speaker 1: And so the two men just went with Marie and
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Speaker 1: they ran back across town to Marie's house, where joe
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Speaker 1: Al was still on the ground writhing in pain. When
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Speaker 1: they went inside. Marie had only been gone for a
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Speaker 1: couple of minutes, but by now it wasn't just joe
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Speaker 1: Al's cheeks that had turned that purplish color. His chest
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Speaker 1: and arms were also turning purple. At this point, the
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Speaker 1: sheriff leaned over jo Ao and began asking him some questions,
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Speaker 1: and joe Ao he was obviously in horrible pain from something,
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Speaker 1: but by this point he had calmed down enough to
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Speaker 1: where he was speaking a little bit more, but what
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Speaker 1: he was saying made no sense. He told the sheriff
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Speaker 1: that he had been followed home, and then he got burned,
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Speaker 1: and when the sheriff asked him, who burned you, all
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Speaker 1: joe Al could say was no one is to blame.
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Speaker 1: At this point, the sheriff left Marie's house and jogged
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Speaker 1: over to joe Al's house to look for some sign
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Speaker 1: of how he got burned. But when he got there,
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Speaker 1: the house was completely unburned. Everything was exactly as it
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Speaker 1: should have been. There was no scorch marks. There was
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Speaker 1: not even a lit candle anywhere, so there was no
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Speaker 1: clues as to what happened to joe Al. By the
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Speaker 1: time the sheriff got back to Marie's it had been
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Speaker 1: about forty five minutes from when joe Al first got hurt,
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Speaker 1: and now whatever was happening to his body that was
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Speaker 1: turning him purple appeared to be getting much worse. Joe
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Speaker 1: Al's skin all over his face and his chest and
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Speaker 1: his arms was now not only a very dark purple,
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Speaker 1: but his skin was starting to blister and pop. In fact,
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Speaker 1: there was one area on his arm that had bubbled
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Speaker 1: up so much that when it burst, you could actually
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Speaker 1: see the bone in his arm. It was almost like
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Speaker 1: joe Au had been boiled in water, like the way
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Speaker 1: you would boil meat on a bone until the meat
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Speaker 1: was tender enough that it fell off the bone. It
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Speaker 1: was like that was happening to Joe Out. And so
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Speaker 1: as Joe Al's flesh just sort of began cooking off
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Speaker 1: of him, the town doctor Arasi said, we have to
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Speaker 1: get him to a hospital right now. But because the
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Speaker 1: roads were not paved and it was dangerous traveling at night,
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Speaker 1: they knew they couldn't get him to the big city hospital.
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Speaker 1: They would have to take him to a local hospital.
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Speaker 1: And so the sheriff, who had a truck, said, let's
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Speaker 1: just put him in the truck and I will drive
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Speaker 1: him there. And so Arassi, the sheriff, and Marie they
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Speaker 1: got a new sheet, they wrapped up joe Out inside
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Speaker 1: of it, and they brought him outside. They put him
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Speaker 1: in the sheriff's truck and they began driving towards the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Arasi stayed in the back with Joao as they made
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Speaker 1: this drive, and every time the truck went over a bump,
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Speaker 1: joe Al would let out a cry of pain, and
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Speaker 1: Arassi would look over and he would literally see these
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Speaker 1: bumps were causing his skin to kind of fall off
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Speaker 1: of his body. When they finally arrived at the local hospital.
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Speaker 1: The staff there pulled Joau inside. They put him in
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Speaker 1: a private room, they put him on a bed, and
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Speaker 1: they had no idea how to treat him. It was
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Speaker 1: like his injuries looked nothing like they had ever seen.
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Speaker 1: They didn't even know where to begin, and they kind
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Speaker 1: of assumed that Joao would not survive whatever was happening
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Speaker 1: to him, and so the first thing they did is
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Speaker 1: just pumped him full of painkillers. And while these painkillers
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Speaker 1: didn't actually do anything to stop basically Joao's body from
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Speaker 1: decomposing while he was still alive, they did at least
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Speaker 1: allow Joao to stop feeling this horrible pain of his
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Speaker 1: flesh falling off of him. And so joe al finally
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Speaker 1: just kind of sunk back in his bed, and the
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Speaker 1: sight of him must have just been horrific. He literally
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Speaker 1: had huge chunks of his flesh just missing. I mean
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Speaker 1: literally parts of his skeleton were exposed to the naked eye.
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Speaker 1: After the doctors had gotten joe Au as stable as
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Speaker 1: they could get him a rassi, the local town doctor
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Speaker 1: sat down next to joe Ja and just began asking
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Speaker 1: him questions, and for the first time, Joao was able
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Speaker 1: to talk somewhat normally because he was on such a
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Speaker 1: high dose of painkillers, and so Arasi began asking Joao
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Speaker 1: to go over everything that happened from the time he
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Speaker 1: left fishing for catfish until he arrived at his house
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Speaker 1: and got burned. This is roughly what Joao told Arasi.
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Speaker 1: He said, on his walk home from fishing, he started
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Speaker 1: getting that feeling that he was being watched, and it
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Speaker 1: got more and more intense as he got into town,
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Speaker 1: until finally he basically sprinted the rest of the way
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Speaker 1: to his house, practically dove through that open window, shut
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Speaker 1: it behind him, and expected to feel relief being in
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Speaker 1: his own home again, but he didn't. The feeling only
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Speaker 1: intensified that he was being watched, and at some point
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Speaker 1: he got that sense that whoever or whatever was watching
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Speaker 1: him was to his left out the window, out into
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Speaker 1: his yard. And when Joe Au turned to look, what
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Speaker 1: he saw standing outside was this dark figure kind of
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Speaker 1: hub over the ground and it was staring right at
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Speaker 1: joe Out and before Joe Al could even put his
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Speaker 1: hands up to protect himself from whatever or whoever this was,
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Speaker 1: this figure shot this bright ray of light directly into
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Speaker 1: Joe Al's home through that window, which hit joe out
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Speaker 1: in the chest and the face. And immediately joe Al
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Speaker 1: was blinded and confused by this light, and then it
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Speaker 1: really started to burn. He believed he was on fire,
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Speaker 1: which is why he grabbed that blanket and wrapped it
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Speaker 1: around himself. He was trying to put out a non
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Speaker 1: existent fire. And that's when he stumbled outside and kind
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Speaker 1: of zigged and zag kind of half trying to put
18:36
Speaker 1: this fire out until he arrived at Marie's house. But
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Speaker 1: when he got there, that sensation of feeling like he
18:43
Speaker 1: was on fire didn't go away. It just got worse
18:46
Speaker 1: and worse and worse, and then his skin began falling off.
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Speaker 1: When Arasi asked, joe Au, you know who do you
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Speaker 1: think did this to you? Who do you think that
18:54
Speaker 1: figure was? And Joe Al, with bulging eyes, would sit
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Speaker 1: forward and say to a Rassi, it wasn't of this world.
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Speaker 1: And as Joe Al said this, a chunk from his
19:04
Speaker 1: cheek fell off, exposing his jaw and teeth. And as
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Speaker 1: this happened, Joao asked one of the nurses for a water,
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Speaker 1: and so Arasi is sitting there having heard this story,
19:15
Speaker 1: as Joao, who's all hopped up on painkillers, is grabbing
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Speaker 1: this water and drinking, and Arasi is watching the water
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Speaker 1: dribble out of the hole, now on the side of
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Speaker 1: Joao's face. About four hours later, joe Al would pass
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Speaker 1: away from his injuries. There has never been any official
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Speaker 1: explanation for what actually happened to Joeau. The doctors just
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Speaker 1: wrote cardiac arrest and generalized burns on his death certificate
19:41
Speaker 1: because they really had no idea what else to call this.
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Speaker 1: Joe Al's family believed the Boitata, the ancient serpent that
19:48
Speaker 1: lived in the forest and appeared at night in a
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Speaker 1: ball of fire, was responsible for what happened to Joeau.
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Speaker 1: Other people in town thought maybe it was the monsters
19:57
Speaker 1: or demons from the older band in mine that had
19:59
Speaker 1: come come out and attacked joe Ou. Outside of joe
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Speaker 1: Al's town, people have theorized that joe Al must have
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Speaker 1: been subjected to some really high dose of radiation, and
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Speaker 1: so this theory has led people to believe that, you know,
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Speaker 1: perhaps Joao was the victim of a secret weapon that
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Speaker 1: the government was testing. But to create such a concentrated
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Speaker 1: beam of radiation that only affects Joeau would be way
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Speaker 1: more technologically advanced than anything that was available at the
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Speaker 1: time in the world, not to mention why would any
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Speaker 1: government randomly target a Brazilian farmer with this weapon. But
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Speaker 1: joe Al would not be the only person in Brazil
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Speaker 1: to die from mysterious rays of light in the nineteen seventies.
20:44
Speaker 1: So thirty years after joe Al's death, several people in
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Speaker 1: a city in northern Brazil reported seeing bright lights coming
20:52
Speaker 1: down from the sky and then they too began turning purple,
20:55
Speaker 1: and their skin began falling off and they would die.
20:58
Speaker 1: And so because of this high number of very strange
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Speaker 1: deaths that looked just like joe Aw's, a new theory
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Speaker 1: has taken root over the years to explain what happened
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Speaker 1: to Joao and these people, and that is they were
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Speaker 1: attacked by a UFO. That Joel when he looked out
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Speaker 1: the window and saw that dark figure hovering over the ground,
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Speaker 1: that was a UFO and the light he saw was
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Speaker 1: a weapon. The UFO was firing a ray of radiation
21:26
Speaker 1: that struck him and killed him like it struck and
21:28
Speaker 1: killed the others in Brazil. The military actually looked into
21:32
Speaker 1: this theory in nineteen seventy seven and nineteen seventy eight,
21:36
Speaker 1: it was called Operation Saucer like Flying Saucer. However, officially
21:41
Speaker 1: they came out and said they found no evidence that
21:43
Speaker 1: UFOs were in any way involved in what happened to
21:47
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21:50
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