3 Hours of Late Night STRANGE Missing Person Cases

3 Hours of Late Night STRANGE Missing Person Cases 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Hello friends.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Today we're going to be talking about five wilderness disappearances
where mysterious disembodied christ for help were heard by search
and rescue teams, but the person couldn't be located. You
can imagine how these disembodied Christs for help would have
baffled search and rescue teams when they couldn't locate the
missing person who had vanished in the wilderness. Likewise, the

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person calling out would probably wonder why they couldn't be heard.
As we all know, thousands of people go missing every
single day in the United States alone, and while some
are found safe and sound and return to their family
and loved ones, many are never seen or heard from again.
How devastating that must be for the people who remain

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in the dark about their loved one, wondering always what
if and what happened?

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Are they alive? Are they deceased?

Speaker 2 (00:56):
But what about the people who went missing and are
known to have called out for help, to have actually
been heard screaming or yelling for someone to rescue them,
but were then never found.

Speaker 1 (01:07):
How does something like that even happen.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Surely you must be thinking that if someone is close
enough to be within aarshot and heard calling for help,
then search and rescue teams, volunteer teams, or even just
a random stranger wondering about in the area heard them.
Then how is it at all possible for that person
to never be seen or heard from again. Now, while
we don't answer to that specific question today, and we

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as a society may never have all of or even
part of the answers to these same questions, let's review
some of these cases today, the ones in which people
were so very close to being rescued, was saved, but
then that help never came. What must that have felt
like to the person who was lost, crying out and
then hearing people who you think are coming to your

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aid for who knows how long, knowing that you're being heard,
and maybe even preparing to get ready to get back
home to your family, and then nothing. Search and rescue
teams and volunteers move on, possibly walking right past you,
to go and continue the search for you somewhere else.
These are just a few of the many cases we
found in which people were actually heard calling for help

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but then could not be located. They were never seen
or heard from again after that. Number five Mitchell Dale
Styling on June nineteenth twenty thirteen, Mitchell Dale, Stalling known
to most as Dale, his wife Denen, and his parents
went to Maseverity National Park in Colorado, USA. The fifty

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one year old Dale decided to go for a hike
by himself to the Spruce Tree House Ruins. The Spruce
Tree House Ruins as the third largest cliff dwelling in
Maysaverite and was actually constructed between twelve eleven and twelve
seventy eight a d by the ancestors of some of
the Pueblo people of the Southwest. This amazing dwelling contains
about one hundred and thirty rooms and eight kivas, which

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are chambers where the ceremonies of the Pueblo people were held.
This dwelling wasn't discovered until eighteen eighty eight, when two
ranchers were trying to find some cattle that had gone
astraight and accidentally stumbled upon this beautiful piece of history.
Dale had decided he wanted to see it for himself
and took off at around four thirty PM with every
intention of returning as soon as he was done. After all,

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the trail was less than a quarter of a mile long,
connecting to the Petroglyffe Point Trail, which is a two
and a half mile loop with cliff exposure that takes
off right from the Spruce Tree Trail. Several witnesses came
forward later and remembered speaking.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
With Dale on the trail that day, but yet he.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Never returned back to his family. It was until seven
years later that his remains were found and returned to
his still hopeful and still searching family on September seventeenth,
twenty twenty. But now let's talk about the mystery surrounding
this horrible tragedy. Here's a little more about what happened
to Dale stalling that faithful day. Back in June of

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twenty thirteen, Dale and his family left their home in Goliad, Texas,
in a camper trailer and headed west to Colorado, a
place Dale had always wanted to see an explore. He
was an experienced outdoorsman and loved to camp and hike,
and was also a very avid gardener and was known
to spend hours alone at home, just spending time intending
to as many plans. He decided a day trip to

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Masoverde National Park was the perfect way, not only for
his family to spend some quality time together, but also
for him to make his dream of seeing the sights
in the beautiful Colorado National Park a reality, and so
they were on their way. The trail was known to
be a bit rough and rugged, so initially the Starlings
were only planning to drive to the lookout point and
experience the breathtaking scenes from a distance. Dale's parents were

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elderly and supported that his wife was overweight, so nobody
but Dale would have been able to hike the trail
very easily once they got there. However, Dale, Beingdale, and
having his great love of nature and the outdoors, decided
to seize the moment and finally have the opportunity he
had waited for for so long to be there in
Colorado in the Maysaverde. He just had to get a
closer look at the first tree house ruins twenty two

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minutes before Dale took off for his hike. The weather
conditions were not that good. The temperature was somewhere between
nineteen one hundred degrees. The train was in other worries.
It was rugged, with steep canyons and mesa tops. Elevation
range from six thousand, five hundred to eight thousand feet
Like to the top of the trail. Dale estimated we'd
take about an hour. This was the average length of

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time for someone in good health to have made it through.
Dale was reported missing very soon after he didn't return it.
He agreed upon time his family didn't want to leave
much room for anything bad to have happened, and got
on to finding him right away.

Speaker 1 (05:37):
The rangers first.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
Thought Dale had just gotten probably a bit off track,
and told his wife to give him a few more hours.
If he didn't return by then, to go ahead then
and report him missing. According to a park public information officer,
the park has never had anyone go missing for more
than a couple of hours once it had indeed been
two hours after he was supposed to have been back.
The park initiated a two week long search and rescue operation,

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which included around sixty searchers, two dog teams, helicopter surveillance,
and rope teams repelling off the cliffs in the chap
and Mesa area. This is where the CA nine teams
had initially shown some interest in the first couple of
days of the search, so this is where they decided
to begin.

Speaker 1 (06:16):
The Patrick Left Point trail.

Speaker 2 (06:18):
Follows a cliff base before descending to the Mesa in
a series of steep sections of switchbacks, which then had
some steps.

Speaker 1 (06:23):
Cut into the rock.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
Though he didn't have any water with him on this
extremely hot day when he disappeared, Nail did have his
cell phone, but after he was determined to have disappeared,
nobody could get any kind of response or an answer
from him when they tried to reach out. Bone records
did show him trying to access his voicemail at around
seven pm that night, or at least the phone was
trying to access the voicemail. We in this community should

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make no assumptions that it was Dale at all who
tried to do this. For the sake of fact, though,
let's move on and say it was him. It was
for nothing, though, as the call dropped and never went through.
According to Patrick O'Driscoll of National Park's Media Services, the
Inner Mountain region, the majority of Masaverty, aside from a
few mark trails, is uncharted territory and therefore technically off

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limits the hikers. Approximately five to ten people go missing
every year in the Masaverity National Park, and none of
these cases are officially closed, including Dale's, until that person
or their body is found authorities have shared everything from
actual case files to random tips with the family, but
Dale's wife, Denean these things much differently than park officials do.

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She says she has pissed off. It feels the search
only really lasted for two days and then Dale was
just given up on. She stated, now that it's been
a year, and honestly, the more I reflect on it,
I'm just pissed off. Their attitude was he was there,
he was lost, and what are they supposed to do
about it. Park officials say, however, that rangers in the

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park were still searching for Dale three months later, though
in a bit more scaled back way. They insist they
did this to keep Dale and his disappearance on their
radar so everyone will continue to be on the lookout
for him. In twenty fourteen, Deneen returned at least fourteen
times to the park, and it's more convinced than ever
that her husband had gone missing due to misleading markers
and signs in the park, which caused him to accidentally

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go off trail. She believes he thought he was following
all the signs properly, but because they were so confusing,
he ended up lost.

Speaker 1 (08:19):
Anyway, There is a.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
Very interesting account written by hiker and writer named Jody Peterson. However,
that was written in twenty thirteen, which details and experiences
she had while hiking the same trail on the same
day as Dale when he went missing. She writes, in part,
after an hour of walking, I suddenly heard a weary
male voice call, I need some help.

Speaker 1 (08:42):
I thought of the missing hiker.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Perhaps after visiting Spruce Treehouse, he'd attempted the trail and
run into trouble. I called out several times, but got
no response. I thought about going off trail to look,
but figured that I'd become a victim number two if
i tried to scramble down those ledges and cliffs.

Speaker 1 (09:00):
Phone had no signal.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
I hiked back down the trail as fast as I could,
and when I found the chief ranger, I told him
what I'd heard. Relief washed over his face as another
staffer said, we thought we heard a call for help
in that area yesterday. They quickly began planning to bring
in dogs and more searchers. I left the ranger station
and stood looking at the opposite side of the canyon
where I'd heard the call for help. I said a

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silent prayer. When I got back to my Western Colorado
home the following day, I checked the news, thinking that
i'd read that the hiker had been found. Instead, I
learned that Mitchell Dale Stalling was still missing, and now
seventy people were looking for him. As I write this,
it's been almost two weeks since Stalling vanished and the

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search has been scaled down. A group of us think
he's still somewhere in the park, said Chief Ranger Jesse Farias.
We've all heard of planning disappearances, but it doesn't smell
that way. The odds of him being found alive, though,
are basically zero. Perhaps he fell at twe big rocks
in a place where searchers can't see him. Perhaps wind
shifts made the dog missus scent. Now the question, though,

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is this, If Dale was heard calling for help by
several different people, and searchers were immediately put into place
and conducted as soon as this was reported, then how
did no one come across him again, even hear him again,
or find any.

Speaker 1 (10:23):
Evidence of him at all.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
If they thought they heard a call for help in
the same area just the day before, then why weren't
they still out searching there that makes no sense. What
really happened out there in Mason very day? Did the
park rangers and other staff of this National park know
more than they're saying. This is something to think about.
Definitely most likely something we will never find an answer to.

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Number four Dayleen Moke Pooa. On February twenty seventh, twenty fifteen,
a seventeen year old named Dayleen Poa, known as Moke
to his family and friends, decided to go for a
hike on the Stairway to Heaven. This is actually the
Haiku Stairs in Oahu, Hawaii. These stairs are basically an

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extremely steep step structure which used to provide pedestrian access
to former US Navy communication.

Speaker 1 (11:14):
Facilities on the island.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
This is considered one of Hawaii's most dangerous trails, and
Mok was last seen boarding a bus in Wayaani to
get to the spot which he wanted so badly to
climb and see the historical sites. Day Leen, who lived
on the Big Island, was visiting Wayaani to spend some
time with his grandmother. His grandmother, Martha Behar, stated that

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the team wanted desperately to climb the trail, which is
forbidden on the windward side of O Wahoo. She told
her grandson she had seen all the news that it
was closed down and he wouldn't be able to access it.
She told him not to waste his time even trying.
Martha said though, that when Dayleen boarded the bus and
said he was going hiking, she never thought he was
really going there to the Stairway to Heaven trail. She

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figured she had already told him that he would get
arrested if he tried to go there and climb, and
that it was closed down and pedestrian access was being refused.

Speaker 1 (12:07):
At around eleven am, Daileen.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
Posted his last ever correspondence when he texted some friends
pictures of himself, stating that he was finally there on
the trail of the Haiku Stairs and was next planning
to climb them. He hasn't been seen or heard from since.
His family studied the pictures daily had sent them from
the trail right before he seemingly disappeared into thin air. Extensively,

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and there are some that stand out. These are the
ones there desperately trying to get the public's help in identifying. Unfortunately,
the more you blow up the images of the more
glory and nondiscernible. They become almost impossible to tell what
you're even looking at, though the family is fairly confident
at least one of them is Dayleene. They believe they
saw a man in the background, far off in the

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distance of at least one of the other pictures, and
theorized that this man was for some reason following daylen
and could have somehow led to his disappearance and possible demise.
Search effort included local fire departments, drone operators, community volunteers,
and even the U. S. Navy conducting a land and
air search to find the young man, all to no avail.

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A few days after he was last heard from and
reported as missing, Monday, March second, two hikers reported hearing
christ for help. This information led the fire department to
continue their search into Tuesday, March third, twenty fifteen. That
particular search was suspended the same afternoon, but local volunteers
continued to look for daylight combing through the mountains, but

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finding no sign of him. The High Costairs have been
closed to the public since nineteen eighty seven, but are
still a very popular hike, with locals and tourists alike
willing to risk fines or arrest. The stairs are in
bad shape after heavy rains and powerful storms have damaged
them to the point that they've gained a somewhat ominous
reputation for being not only treacherous, but possibly deadly as well.

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Some people believe they should be fixed, restored, and railpened
to the public. All others say they should be torn
down altogether. The fate of Daieen molk Hua is still
unknown to this day, as is why he wasn't found
despite hikers very clearly hearing him calling for help. Was
this actually Daileen Pula crying out for help again? We

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will most likely never know. Number three Philip Kracik. Yet
another unfortunate soul who decided to go out for what
seemed like a pleasant scenic hike and ended up not
ever being seen or heard from again, even after being
heard screaming or yelling for help, is thirty year old

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Philip Cracik from Berkeley, California. Philip told his wife he
was headed out for a run in the hills near
the Malar Ranch staging area in Pleasanton Ridge Regional Park, California.
He called her once he reached the trail to inform
her that it would take him about an hour and
to let her know when she could expect him back
that day. He was last seen running at around ten
forty five am That same morning. Philip's wife reported him

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missing the same afternoon. He had headed out for the
run when he failed to return home and hadn't been
in contact with her or anyone else to let them
know why I wasn't back yet. This was very unlike
him by all accounts. Investigators in Pleasanton stated that they
had never come across such of as our case. Either
he got hurt and was only able to call out,

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or he planned all of this and purposely disappeared, leaving
his wife and his life behind and never looking back.
This left his family and friends to wonder forever what
happened to him and why. According to his family, the
latter isn't even an option, as Philip just wasn't that
type of man and loved his life and his family.

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Philip was supposed to meet with his wife to attend
a family gather against Stockton, California. When he didn't show
up at the appointed time, his wife immediately knew something
was wrong and.

Speaker 1 (15:53):
Called the authorities.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
Philps said to have left his shirt and cell phone
in his vehicle, and although he was running with a
smart watch, it was unfortunately not equipped with GPS. With
temperatures rising above one hundred degrees fahrenheit that day in Pleasanton,
many were led to immediately and began to speculate that
the heat had somehow incapacitated Philip on that day, July tenth,
twenty twenty one. Now this didn't make much sense to

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his family and loved ones, though, as Philip was a
marathon runner and was well adjusted to running under such
extreme conditions as blaring heat, which might incapacitate most people.
His cell phone showed that this route was planned out
entirely along very well maintained in manicured trails. Though the
park was packed with people that day, not a single

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credible sighting of Philip has ever been reported. Sergeant Aaron
Fountain of the Pleasanton Police Department, who's handling the investigation, said,
I can't even speculate on this one. It's very very odd.
Now I continue. Philip Krasik was a family man with
two small children, and also a graduate of the prestigious
Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. He was also listed as

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a third year student in MIT's urban Mobility Lab. Philip
went missing on a Saturday, and the following Wednesday, a
family hiking in the area reported hearing cries in a
canyon near the Sunhall Post office. After receiving this tip,
two people who were involved in the search went out
to the area and heard for themselves a man screaming
for help near the canyon. Experienced hikers in the search

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and rescue effort set out to go and see if
they could hear the calls and perhaps follow them to
try and find Philip, who they presumed it was, and
bring him safely back to his family. However, once arriving
at the spot where the christs for help were allegedly
heard by multiple people at this point, they heard nothing
and weren't able to locate Philip either. That same night,

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the search efforts were officially called off, and Philip hasn't
been found as of this video being made almost a
month later.

Speaker 1 (17:51):
Theories run wild as to what happened.

Speaker 2 (17:53):
To Philip, crazy from demented and murderous drug dealers taking
him hostage to large speedlines, carrying him up trees and
feasting to him, just walking off and abandoning his life,
which she was said.

Speaker 1 (18:05):
To love so much.

Speaker 2 (18:07):
However, that's just what these are theories, as there hasn't
been any evidence as to if this was definitely Philip
who was heard crying from the canyon for help that
faithful day. Again, why didn't the first two experienced hikers
who were sent out and did claim to have heard
at least someone crying for help never find him? This
is another case as completely and totally baffling and runs

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along the exact vein as the previous to and the
cases to follow.

Speaker 1 (18:33):
We'll never know.

Speaker 2 (18:35):
Surely, if he was attacked and eaten by wild animals,
there would have been some sort of trail for either
the animal searchers or even the human ones to find
and follow, at least leading to.

Speaker 1 (18:43):
Some sort of explanation signs.

Speaker 2 (18:45):
Of a struggle, blood, torn clothing, etc. We'll just have
to wait and see on this one. Do have an
update here. While this video was in editing, Philip was
found as ceased. We'll create a new case update video
very soon to discuss this with you. Billip, Rest in peace,
My friend number two. Linda Artega. On September twenty second,

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twenty twelve, fifty three year old Lynda Artega left her
home in Blackwell, Oklahoma, and headed out to the woods
in the Arkansas Ozarts near Saint Joe. Linda was with
her brother and they were visiting with her sister when,
somewhat ironically, her brother offered to take her into the
woods and teach her some survival skills. She somehow became
separated from him and ended up lost in the woods

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for five days. The story she told of her experience
is strange, to say the least. However, in this community,
if you clicked on this video or you're aware of
all the strange things happening in the woods, besides all
the bizarre death and disappearances, and if you've been paying
attention at all and can clearly see something is wrong
with not only the things mentioned above, but also with
the reports and stories of encounters and experiences have by

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the people who were lost for however long and whatever
part of this seven hundred million acres of forest and
woodlands in the United States alone, then you'll understand why
it was absolutely necessary that we tell Linda's story here now.
As soon as she was reported missing, search was mounted
in almost every single resident of Saint Joe, which was
a tiny town of not even two hundred people, and

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various other volunteers from throughout the county set out to
find the missing woman. She was eventually found relatively unharmed
and picked up by an all trained vehicle driven by
some of these volunteers. Linda was lucky enough to have
only sustained some minor cuts and bruises, but what happened
to her affected her psychologically, and it was definitely a
strange story she had to tell. Chief Deputy Dwayne Pierce

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stated that when she came out of the woods, she
wasn't right about her head. As N's quote. Miss Artega
reported that she had survived by eating wild berries, watercress,
hazel nuts, and anything else she could find which she
knew was edible. She also drank water from the creek.
At night, she huddled on the freezing cold ground underneath
trees for shelter, praying for someone to come.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
And finally find her.

Speaker 2 (21:03):
She also repeatedly thanked her brother and insisted she never
would have survived without the knowledge he had just been
teaching her about how to survive in the wild.

Speaker 1 (21:11):
The strangest and scariest.

Speaker 2 (21:12):
Part of the entire five day ordeal, though, was what
Linda said she'd experienced while out there, lost and alone,
cold and afraid in the unknown woods and trails. She
claimed that while she was out there, especially at night,
she would see other people there. They would be walking
around her along the trails or even right there in
the thick of the woods. She would ask them for

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help or try to get their attention, maybe even ask
one of them if they could point her in the
direction of safety. However, not a single one of these
people even acknowledged her or looked in her direction. She
claimed people were even hiding behind the bushes like they
didn't want her.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
To see them.

Speaker 2 (21:49):
Now, while in the hospital, she did admit that perhaps
some of the berries she'd eat and caused some kind
of mild hallucination, she wasn't sure.

Speaker 1 (21:56):
She claimed she'd.

Speaker 2 (21:57):
Managed to stay with her brother for three days before
becoming separated from them, and knew what she should and
what she should need when trying to survive. She's very
consistent in her story. Think about the people hiding in
the bushes. These people definitely weren't part of any kind
of search party. Why would people trying to find a
lost woman to hide so she couldn't see them? More

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than that, Why would others walk right past her and
then try and hide as though they were playing some
kind of strange hide and seek game, hiding in playing sight?
Is this, finally the proof that there are in fact
strange people who live in the woods who either don't
know how to interact with other people or just don't
want to, especially other people who aren't like them or
who aren't from where they're from. Is this proof of

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Ferohs wild men? How does this all tie in with
strange missing person cases and even death we see which
are becoming so much more common year after year in
the woods.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Is this what we.

Speaker 2 (22:51):
Should be paying attention to when out searching for the
above mentioned missing There was a statement made for the
doctor Linda saw after being taken to the hospital when
she was rescued, which validates her sanity.

Speaker 1 (23:03):
She was not insane.

Speaker 2 (23:06):
How much more interesting that she was very picking when
she ended up being separated from a brother after three
days of staying right next to him. As we all know,
this is a very common theme among the missing people
in the woods, the berry picking or berry patches in general.
But there are those who are found and then those
who seem to be forever lost. Lynda is not the

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first person, or more specifically, the first woman, to report
things like this while either lost or for whatever reason,
wandering the woods alone. There are many other reports of
women being followed or even chased by what they referred
to as men while being lost in those same woods.
This is also very common in the East along the
Appalachian Trail. Think back to the story of Little Dennis

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Martin and how family out for a hike or camping
trips what they referred to as a wild man carrying
something which looked like a small child over its shoulder.
There are also several park rangers in the United States,
Dwight maccarter among them, who have come forward since retiring
and tell stories of wild men living and even hunting
in the woods of her national parks in general forested

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areas of her country. Is this only going on here
in the United States?

Speaker 1 (24:17):
Though not at all.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
There's one specific report we covered in an early video
about wild men feral humans in the woods where at
least one park ranger was attacked by one of these people. Now, luckily,
Linda was able to keep her wits about her despite
what must have been petrifying fear and she made a
full recovery after her harrowing ordeal Number one Naomi Lee Whidden.

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On November twenty fifth, nineteen ninety four, Dwayne Winden decided
to take his son, aged six, and two daughters, ages
two and three for a hike in the Chattahoochee National Forest.
He parked the car at the base of a large mountain.
There the trailhead, unloaded his children, and off they went.
Per day of family fun together. Dwayne and as three
kids hiked about a mile and a half up an

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old logging trail and into the deep wilderness of the forest.
Later on, when recounting the incident of what happened and
how Naomi had come to be lost in the woods,
he stated, they, meaning his children, were in my full view,
my sight and hearing, and then she was gone. He
stated that they were all looking for signs of animals
when suddenly Naomi, only two years old, just simply vanished.

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There was never any explanation we could find of what
actually happened, And how is possible a two year old
little girl in full view of her father no less,
disappeared faster than he could finish blinking. It's like she
blinked right out of existence. Local authorities brought in bloodhounds
and search teams from the surrounding counties to aid in
the search of a small girl. Teams of volunteers and

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search and rescue headed out well into the middle of
the night, looking for Naomi and calling her name, but
to no avail. She was seemingly nowhere at all. Now,
approximately twenty five hours after she first disappeared, a man
named Kip Clayton was searching the outer fringes of the
search area he and his team were assigned to when
he said his intuition, that old gut instinct pushed him

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forth to go and search another two hundred and fifty
yards forward, leaving the official search area he was looking in.
But that's when he found her. Laying next to a
large log, face down and unresponsive in mud, muck and leaves,
was two year old Naomi Wind. He picked her up
and she let out a small moan. She was freezing cold,

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her body at a dangerously low temperature, and Kip ran
as fast as he could when Naomi barely breathing in
his arms, the approximate mile back to the command post.
Naomi was rushed to the nearest hospital, and she was
only a semi conscious and in very critical condition which
she arrived now. While eventually she fully recovered and managed
a surviv her ordeal, many questions remained about what exactly

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happened to her. As mentioned before, where Naomi was found
was only about two hundred and fifty yards away from
where the searchers would have been screaming and yelling her
name the.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Night before, all throughout the night.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
Why didn't Naomi respond to them at all? Why didn't
she alert them in any way as to where she
was so they could go and help her.

Speaker 1 (27:15):
It isn't possible that.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
She was faced down in the mud the entire time,
or she couldn't have survived. Surely she would have suffocated,
So why didn't she respond? Did she not hear them?
If she couldn't hear them, why not taking into account
when trying to understand these things, how close this disappearance
was to the Great Smoky Mountains, and how many children
not only have disappeared there but were found face down

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on the ground. Usually the ones closest to Naomi's as
are found this way, sometimes though it's too late. Naomi
was very lucky to have survived. Also, why doesn't a
simple Google search turn up more information about this case
other than one document? There's not any mention of this

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online anywhere. So, friends, what do you think of these
strange cases? People that heard calling out couldn't be located,
or people that couldn't hear the searchers calling for them.
Very strange. I look forward to your comments. Y'all take

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care of yourselves and each other. I'll see you a
little farther on down the road. I'm Steve Stockton, and
I'll talk to you next time. The strange disappearance of

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Eric Sears. On July fourteenth, two thousand and four, friends
and recent graduates of Carlsbad High School in California, seventeen
year olds Eric Sears and Ben Foglstrom decided to go
on a camping trip together in Joshua Tree National Park.
The two of them showed up to their campsite in
jumbo rocks and we're just having a good time. They

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were turned away from the Sanya Sinto due to wildfires
around noon, is when investigators believed the two boys became separated.
Teams of searchers were told that Eric became dehydrated and
Ben went to go and find some water. Erk stayed
behind and curled up underneath a picnic bench to try
and rest in the shade until Ben returned. When Ben

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came back, he couldn't find Eric anywhere and became panicked.
Some other campers came across him high is still unclear
and brought him into the park office to report the
disappearance of Eric at around four to forty the next afternoon.
The search of a twenty square mile area of the
park began at six pm that evening. There's an intensive
search and rescue operation. Parks SAAR teams scoted the area

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with help from various law enforcement teams, and as of
Sunday there were one hundred and seventy searchers in total,
but by Monday the number of searchers had dropped to
forty because the volunteers had to return to work.

Speaker 1 (29:59):
The search included.

Speaker 2 (30:00):
Tracking dogs, horses, a helicopter, fixt wing planes, and climbers
who looked in rock crevices where he could have fallen.
Robert Fonda, one of the park's lead trackers, said the
search was difficult because it had taken place in one
hundred plus degree heat every day. Because the terrain varied
from really flat to boulder outcroppings where the footing is perilous.

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He stated, We've been working a lot in the back
areas and making sure that some teams didn't miss anything.
You can't speculate about what may have happened, You just
have to search. Searchers did find some of Eric's shoe prints,
and the dogs were able to pick up his scent,
but none of it enabled them to determine where he
was going. Eric was described as in top physical condition.

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He ran cross country for four years in high school
and even traveled to Australia two years earlier with other
state runners. As an adult, he also participated in a
twenty four hour relay race between Carlsbad and El Camino
High schools at Carlsbad July tenth and eleventh to promote
the sport and raise money. Unfortunately, all would not end well.

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Eric's body was found on July twenty third. Because of
death couldn't be determined by autopsy because that time it
was too badly decomposed. There was no obvious trauma found
anywhere on the body. This is when the investigators turned
to the only person who was with him that night
for answers. The rest of the story was told by
Ben to the authorities. It's strange, to say the least.

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Here's what Ben said had happened leading up to the disappearance,
though he admitted to authorities during this statement, but he
was having trouble distinguishing what actually happened from hallucinations he
was certain he was having due to his and Eric's
partaking in a wildly grown, illicit but not illegal in
the state of California substance the night before. His report

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was oftentimes conflicting and all over the place. He told
authorities both he and Eric had drank a tea made
from a certain weed. He claimed he remembered speaking to
a bush an Indian, and possibly to Eric. He said
he was pretty sure his friend was deceased because he
thought he remembered disposing of his body. He also couldn't
tell authorities exactly how Eric had gone missing or ended

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up deceased, depending on which story Ben was recounting at
the time. However, two chemicals toxins found in this plant
were found in.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Eric spring tissue.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
One way or another, the use of this plant by
Ben and Eric was a major contributing factor in Eric's death.
The plant known as gemson weed, local weed, stink weed,
mad apple, thorn apple are among the street names for
the foul smelling Datura stramonium plant. It is one of
a group of plants known as Belladonnas. Notaria's tremonium is

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a common weed found along roadsides, in cornfields, pastures, and
waste areas. It's been reported to grow wildly in all
but two states, by only in Alaska. Although it's not
popular on the street, it is usually used by teenagers
curious about the plants hallucinogenic and your fororic effects. Although
something adolescents might use with their peers, all parts of

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the plant are toxic and usage can result in serious
illness or death. It can take up to hours for
someone to feel the plant's effects, so people often consume
excessive amounts, believing it's not working. Since it's growing wild,
the ponency is impossible to predict. The toxicity even varies
by year, between plants, parts of the plant, and even

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among different leaves on the same plant.

Speaker 1 (33:28):
Even just a small amount.

Speaker 2 (33:29):
Of it ingested can cause nausea, headache, severe agitation, hallucinations,
behavioral changes, and or delirium. Annually, poison control centers deal
with approximately one thousand cases of poisoning by these plants.
Usage increases between man September when the plants are mature
and plentiful. The overwhelming majority of users report that their

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experience is very unpleasant, physically dangerous, and sometimes terrifying. Few
people ever use it twice. A one time usage can
have tragic effects, such as in this case. With all
that being said, one may ask, what is the lure
to experiment with a plant which seems to have no
pleasant effects whatsoever. The effects have been described as being

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in a living dream and can last for days. It
has extremely powerful psychoactive effects, including hallucinations, delusions, disorientation, confusion,
and panting.

Speaker 1 (34:24):
Doesn't sound like my idea of fun.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
Users have no concept that anything they're talking to, seeing,
or running from isn't actually there. That's how intense these
hallucinations can be, where it's impossible to distinguish them from reality.
Oddly enough, some of the hallucinations are reported to have
recurrent themes, such as insects, cigarettes, people or objects appearing
and disappearing, including demons and monsters. Smoking a phantom cigarette

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is one of the most common hallucinations even if the
individual has never smoked before, talking to inanimate objects, plants,
and friends who are not present. It's also frequently reported
individuals lose their ability to identify their friends and may
not even recognize their own reflection in a mirror. The
individual may also try to interact with these hallucinations. Most

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users don't even realize that they're hallucinating until its effects
wear off. Amnesia is also frequently reported, with users having
no memory of what they were doing for several hours,
or they may unconsciously replace fact with fantasy. They can
fall in and out of conscience, slip into delirium.

Speaker 1 (35:33):
It's believed that this is what.

Speaker 2 (35:34):
Happened with There can be in while they were out
being typical teenagers that night in Joshua Tree. Did they
get in over their heads and one thing lead to another?

Speaker 1 (35:43):
Did Eric dive an overdose?

Speaker 2 (35:45):
I'm taking too much thinking the initial doses weren't effective
or not working for him, or was it something else
all together? Unfortunately, gyms and weeds related deaths are often
a result of in pair judgment that leads to risk
taking activities, which is believing you can fly and jumping
off a cliff, or chasing a mermaid in a lake
even though you can't swim, or the above listed or

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nowhere near all the dangerous effects this particular belladonna could
have on the human brain and psyche. So what happened
to Eric serious that faithful night in two thousand and
four when he had his whole life ahead of him
and was just looking to have some fun with his
friend in a beautiful place the celebration of the Huge
Life Milestone and graduating high school. Eric was described by

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his peers as popular and friendly, and, as mentioned before,
was a member of the cross country team.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
He had been accepted into.

Speaker 2 (36:37):
The engineering program at San Diego State University that was
to begin classes that fall. His death affected the whole community.
According to an affidavit filed and super record in Indio,
he provided several stories of hallucinating during the night, with
heat being ben Fogustrom. The community was heartbroken with the
discovery of Eric's body and with the seeming senselessly of it.

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On top of it all, on the porch of the
Seers home, signs with messages of hope, flowers and red
and white and blue candles formed. While was to be
a welcome for the family when they returned. Parents Tom
and Wendy Sears have remained at the desert campground since
shortly after their son was reported missing. Officials said the
Seiers family was in seclusion Friday night in nearby twenty

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nine Palms, and that their daughter, Stephanie, aged nineteen, was
en route to join them. Many were expected to return
later in the evening to share prayers and light candles
against the darkness at the Seers home, something.

Speaker 1 (37:35):
They have done night after night this week.

Speaker 2 (37:38):
Neighbors and friends said the mutual support provided by the
small closed community has at times been the only thing
that carried them through more than a week of waiting.
Groups of neighbors have traveled daily to Joshua Tree to
help support the family. There was a search warrant issued
for Ben's home and hopes of uncovering more information. According
to this affidavit, investigators did give him a lie detect

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your tests, but we know that these are faulty and
not admissible in most courts. This was while searchers were
so looking for Eric in the Chostral Tree Park. According
to the affidavit, Ben Terrify admitted during an interview with
detectives that he found Eric dead inside his tent. He
said that happened the day he reported his friend as missing.
This is also where he admitted to disposing of Eric's

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body by putting an inside an outhouse toilet at their campsite,
but according to the affidavit, that's when he wanted to
stop talking to investigators and then change the story altogether.
Investigators say he later denied dumping Erx's body in an
outhouse and said that's not where I put him. Investigators
did indeed check several park toilets, but searchers eventually found

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Eric's body lying in the middle of the desert, about
three miles from the Jumbo Rocks campground. Sheriff's investigators tried
hard to corroborate what Ben told them about what happened
while they were at the campsite, before, during, and after
they had consumed the plan. Whatever information was given to
us in the affidavit, investigators are looking into it and
looking at every scenario in the affidavit, they said. But

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despite statements Ben apparently made in this Affidavid, the Sheriff's
Department said he was not a suspect in the death.
They did say that he is still a focus of
their investigation as they tried to figure out exactly how
the seventeen year old ended up dead in the desert
at Joshua Tree. No one was ever charged with anything
in relation to the death of Eric Sears, and so

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much of what happened remains a mystery. To make matters
worse and even more sad, two San Bernardino County Sheriff's
Search and Rescue volunteers on.

Speaker 1 (39:36):
Their way to help search for e Eric.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
A thirty five year old man named Joseph Tidwell from
Wonder Valley who was allegedly under the influence of several
narcotic substances, lost consciousness due to his intoxication, causing his
truck to drift across the roadway directly into the path
of the Sheriff's man. Scott Johnson, thirty of Redlands died
at the scene. Philip Calvert, fifty eight, of Mentone, was

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transported to the Desert Regional Medical Centered with major injuries
and sadly died early the next morning. Although this harmful
plant isn't scheduled under the Controlled Substances Act. Three states Connecticut,
New Jersey, and Tennessee at this time have passed legislation
to control it. In addition, the FDA has asserted that

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the belladonna alkaloids in this plant are neither safe nor
effective in over the counter or other cough and cold inhalos,
So be careful what you put into your body. Hello, friends,
in this video, going to take a look at Devil's

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Hole and the tragic disappearance of two teens in nineteen
sixty five. Now, there's just something about a place with
the name devil in its title that pigs the curiosity
of some people. There are countless locations all over the
world which have this particular.

Speaker 1 (40:58):
Word in their name.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Not only devil, either, there are many other words that
symbolize or mean devil, or evil, or some other form
of something not very good or beautiful, given somewhat ironically
to some of the world's most breathtaking and wondrous places.
Sometimes the location will have got its name innocently enough,
such as because the geology of the place simply looks

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foreboding and sinister, especially under the cover of night. Much
of the time, these particular places are said to be cursed, enchanted,
or downright evil, and the spooky and scary landscape only
lends credence to these rumors and legends. So much of
the time, though, these places with this particular word in

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the title are associated with not just devils, demon spirits,
and other other worldly phenomena, but with real tragedies, disappearances, deaths,
maybe bizarre sounds and strange lights in the sky. Today, though,
we're going to focus on one place in particular. We're

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a mysterious tragedy struck Devil's Hole, which is located in
the aptly named Death Valley National Park in California, United States.
This portion of the Mojave Desert contained in Death Valley
National Park is the driest and hottest place in the
United States. Near bad Water in the Long Trench of

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the desert, between the Panamint Range on the west and
the Black Mountains on the east, is the lowest dry
land in the Western Hemisphere. An amazing two hundred and
eighty two feet below sea level. A veritable showcase of
desert extremes, Death Valley National Park includes one of the
largest salt pans on Earth, dramatically faulted landscapes, young volcanic craters,

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and massive dune fields. Today, we're going all the way
back to the year nineteen sixty five. Death Valley was
very different from the Los Angeles of the time, where
there were uprisings happening all over the place and all
of it being shown live on the evening news. Death Valley, California,

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was in one of the least populated parts of the
state at the time, and a whole different world from
the more largely inhabited cities which surrounded it. On June twentieth,
nineteen sixty five, four high school buddies set out to
remote desert location about ninety miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Their intent was to joydive into a deep geothermal abyss

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called Devil's Hole. Sadly, two the young men would never
re emerge from this mysterious fossil water portal. Arriving at
their destination, the forsome hiked cup of hot Barren Hillsite,
which overlooked a large scale ranching operation that would nearly
erase a much smaller and nearly ancient complex called ash Meadows.

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Within a few short years, trampled trail led to the
entrance of a limestone chasm and had allegedly opened a
whopping sixty thousand years ago, after possibly some seismic event
caused the roof of the cave to collapse in on itself.
The foursome of Boys, which was made up of Paul
gian Conterry, a nineteen year old cafeteria worker at the

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nearby Nevada test site, his new brother in law, twenty
year old David Rose, who was a Las Vegas casino
parking attendant, were with their other friend, nineteen year old
Bill Alter, and his younger brother Jack. Boys scrambled under
a fenced enclosure posted with warning signs, and thinking they
were immune to any trouble these warning signs might be

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posted about, they proceeded to descend the thirty or so
feet down to a ledge, where the faint but flitting
movement of tiny blue gray pupfish could be observed swimming
in the eight by sixty foot pool, That is, if
any of the four young men had bothered to look
just a bit closer at what they were about to
jump into. After suiting up with scuba tanks, masks, and

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dive lights, Paul, David, and Bill dove into the claustrophobic waters.
The temperature was nearly indistinguishable from that of their skin.
Upon entering the pool, the boys most likely disturbed the
delicate algae spawning mats, where the entire population of the
exceedingly rare Cyprinodon diabolus continues to prosper and breed exclusively.

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Jack was the only one who hadn't jumped in, as
he was delegated the one who would remain stationed on
the ledge in case anything went wrong. Some time after midnight,
Paul failed to resurface, so David and Bill quickly redove
into the waters in a vain attempt to locate their
missing friend. Bill Alter frantically followed David Rose down to
approximately one hundred and seventy feet until David too disappeared

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into the darkness. The bodies of the brothers in law
were never recovered. Many people believed back then and still
do believe that these young men were inspired to go
diving at night despite the dangers in this specific place,
because of a newspaper article from the year before, which
detailed a speleological research expedition of a massive underground lake

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below Death Valley led by California based professional diver Jim House,
who would ironically dive numerous times around the clock with
military personnel and other volunteer divers in their attempt to
locate the missing men for thirty six whole hours until
the search was eventually called off. The only traces left
of the two brother in laws a mask and a snorkel.

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There was also a flashlight tied to allege some hundred
feet below. It seemed to signal and effectively the way
out of the otherworldly underwater cave system. Articles detailing the
unsuccessful rescue effort were published nationwide in the Sarasota Journal
date of June twenty second, eighteen sixty five. Out stated
that he had previously dived in Devil's Hole around three

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hundred times over twenty eight trips, further commenting, it's beautiful
in there. It goes straight down one hundred and sixty
feet like a pipe, then opens into a room that
is about three hundred feet long and maybe forty feet wide.
The bottom of the room is about two hundred and
sixty feet down. Then it narrows into another tube. I

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dive to three hundred and fifteen feet. Maybe that's a record,
I don't know. But at the end of the tube
it opens again into something else.

Speaker 1 (47:31):
We don't know what.

Speaker 2 (47:32):
The next room is, or if it's a room at all,
it's like infinity. There are some very terrifying legends from
the native tribes of the area about this particular place
called Devil's Hole. The Timbasha told tales of water babies
who would surface and swallow a swimmer or dive or
hole should they stay in the pool for too long.

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Other legends suggested that so a Pizi, a legendary malevolent
giant who dwelled at mountains, rings and caves, would snatch
and devour unworry victims. Miss was standing. Barbara Durham, an
elder of the Timbicious Shoshone, who shared these stories at
a two thousand and two workshop, admitted that she and

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her friends enjoyed how the pupfish tickled their toes when
they played in the spring. Keep in mind here that
the Devil's Whole pupfish, as they're specifically named, are considered
by experts to be the rarest fish.

Speaker 1 (48:27):
Found anywhere on the planet.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
They were even the first ever species to be classified
as endangered. The fish are not important to the story
at all, really, but it seemed worth mentioning in order
to reinforce how very special and perhaps a bit magical
this place actually is. As far as the two young
men who disappeared without a trace back in this mystical
and extremely dangerous underwater cave system decades ago, well, they've

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never been found and neither have any clues relating to
what could it possibly happen to them. As for one
more bit of interesting fact that could lend a bit
of Creden says something a bit more sinister being afoot,
as the local tribes absolutely believe that this otherwise serene
and tranquil looking water source. It said that Charles Manson

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himself spent several days at Devil's Hole trying to figure
out a way to make it safely down into the chasm,
with some saying he was convinced he.

Speaker 1 (49:24):
Would never have to come back up.

Speaker 2 (49:27):
Allegedly, he had an obsession with the place that was
convinced that there was an underwater portal to an alternate dimension,
or more specifically, a portal to the underworld, where he
felt he and his family would be able to safely
wait out the coming apocalypse. He so famously predicted what
happened that never actually did.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Charles Manson's problem.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
Lie in figuring out a way to drain the whole,
and it seemed like he may have been given this
idea by an alleged Indian legend that resurfaced during the
nineteen twenties, contending that a subterranean sect of leather clad
humanoids lived down within an eerly yellow green lid of
bowed somewhere in the Mohave Desert.

Speaker 3 (50:10):
Says Bill planned on leaving the park before dark, and
when she still hadn't heard from him by Friday morning,
she called rangers, who launched a search effort that's.

Speaker 4 (50:19):
Grown an incredible story of survival. The hiker survived five
days alone out in Joshua Tree.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
It all started on the last week of December in
twenty twelve. My mother and I were relaxing after work
watching TV when out of the corner of my eye,
I noticed movement in our hallway. When I turned to look,
I noticed two shadowy like figures that appeared on our
hallway wall. In disbelief of what I was saying, I
turned my head over towards my mother, and right as

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I did, she made eye contact with me and simply said,
you see them, don't you?

Speaker 1 (50:52):
I said yes.

Speaker 2 (50:54):
She told me not to acknowledge them because they are
entities that consents fear, but in disbelief, looked back over
the hallway wall and.

Speaker 1 (51:02):
They were gone.

Speaker 2 (51:03):
A few days had gone by, and my mother told
me she felt a sense of dread and said someone
in our family's going to pass away before the end
of the year. Well, on New Year's Eve twenty twelve,
my mother and I celebrated at home. We watched the
movie Tron and had a pizza delivered.

Speaker 1 (51:20):
To ring in the new year.

Speaker 2 (51:22):
I've always been a real mama's boy, so this was
an ideal way for me to spend my New Year's Eve.
Around eleven pm that night, we saw the two figures again.
This time we both experienced an overwhelming quietness and sense
of urgency and dread. We both did our best ignored,
and eventually the shadowy figures and the senses went away.

Speaker 1 (51:42):
We discussed the experience.

Speaker 2 (51:44):
And again my mother told me to never acknowledge them,
and before I could press her for more details, my
mother started telling me how much I meant to her
and that I would go on to do great things
in my life.

Speaker 1 (51:55):
She loved me, et cetera.

Speaker 2 (51:57):
She then got up and walked towards the kitchen, turned
round and said I love you, then fell to the ground.
I had previous EMT training and am certified in CPR,
so I dialed nine one one and explained to them
my mother is in cardiac arrest and I needed medical
assistance asap.

Speaker 1 (52:15):
I was doing.

Speaker 2 (52:16):
CPR on my mother for nearly twenty minutes, and for
anyone who's ever done CPR, it's not easy. The MTS
arrived at eleven thirty eight p m and my mother
was taken to the emergency room. By this time, our
neighbor and friend, Bonnie, had rushed over to my house
and drove me to the hospital. When I checked in
at the front desk, I was taken to a small

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private room and the physician told me that my mother
had passed away. The autopsy showed my mother suffered from
a fatal heart attack and her time of death was eleven.

Speaker 1 (52:49):
Fifty nine p m.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
On December thirty first, twenty twelve. When I was taken
in to see her one last time, her lips were blue,
she was cool to the touch, but she was still
my mom, so I just hugged her and couldn't let
go for nearly thirty minutes. Thankfully, my neighbor Bonnie, was
there and gave me plenty of support and encouragement to leave,
as my mother would want me to stay strong. Fast

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forward to about six months after my mother died, I'd
quit my job and had become a recluse. I would
only leave my house to purchase groceries. I quickly realized
how severely depressed I was and decided it was time
to get away. I ended up traveling to Joshua Tree
National Park and decided it would be my getaway to
find some peace and closure. I notified my neighbor Bonnie

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not to worry that I'm just going on a day's
hike and would be back by midnight. When I arrived
at Joshua Tree, I parked my jeep and entered the
Lost Palms Oasis Trail. After a few hours of walking
and hiking, I stopped to take a break and eat.
As I finished up and looked around, nothing looked familiar

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and I in fact was not on any trail. I
was not too worried and felt confident I would find
my way back. But as I made my way through
the desert landscape that I did not recall ever passing,
I started feeling like I was being watched. I started
to panic. Then I started hearing strange growling noises, but

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could not determine from what direction they were coming from.
It almost seemed like they were all around me. So
I stood in one spot and made a three hundred
and sixty degree rotation. As I came to stop, I
saw something transparent, no defining shape, just to blur directly
in front of me that was coming closer and closer
to where I was standing. I quickly turned around and

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started walking faster and faster in the opposite direction, and
then experienced the same overwhelming quietness and sense of urgency
and dread I had experienced with my mother just six
months prior. Then, all of a sudden, almost like a
snap of a finger, daytime turned into night. I wasn't
sure what was going on, but knew something wasn't right.
After walking around in the dark, I found myself by

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a large rock about as big as a large suv
and felt safest there. I put my back against the rock.
This way, I felt nothing would sneak up behind me.
I used the knight to hydrate and eat some snacks
I brought. I remember trying to make sense out of
what I was experiencing, but knew that my mother and
I had already experienced something within our own home. But

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at least when I was home, I felt safe here,
I was vulnerable and alone. As I tried to rest
that night, I started seeing a number of shadowy entities
walking around in the desert, almost as if they were
wandering around aimlessly. It freaked me out, and the more
I acknowledged them, the closer they got to me. At

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one time during the night, I remember feeling something breathing
down my neck. Remember my back was against the huge rock.
I just closed my eyes and did my best to
keep them shut. The last thing I remember about that
night was opening my eyes and seeing three shadowy figures,
one at each side and one directly in front of me.
Then once again, in a snap, it was morning. I

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would experience the same weirdness for two more days until
the last day. On the last day of me roaming
around Joshua Tree, I hadn't had any food or water
since the initial first night. I was scared and dehydrated.
I came upon another large rock and remembered in my
EMT training that digging a hole near a rock in
the desert will keep you cool and less likely to

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get severe sunburn. I did just that and thought to myself,
I'm literally digging my own grave. By the time I
laid down in the two foot arch hole I had
made and covered my chest and legs up of dirt,
I blacked out.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
I don't remember.

Speaker 2 (56:41):
Anything for the rest of that day or night. The
next morning, I was woken by an off duty search
and rescue employee who was literally making me choke on water.
I remember him saying, there are a whole lot of
people out looking for you, buddy. I was picked up
by helicopter and taken to Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs.

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In the days during my recovery, I saw two detectives,
a number of psychiatrists, and my neighbor Bonnie, who was
there at the hospital by my side one hundred percent away.
The detectives wanted to close the missing person's report my
neighbor Bonnie made the second day I was missing, but
they asked me strange questions like was I using a
flare gun in the area no? And why had I

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purchased a large amount of camping gear and survival materials
prior to my hike I'm going for a hike, strange
questions to ask someone, or maybe it's just me. The
physician stated he thought I was planning to myself due
to the loss of my mother, but honestly, that never
crossed my mind. The psychiatrist told me I didn't experience
anything but hallucinations due to the lack of food and

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water and effects of dehydration. My neighbor Bonnie, overheard my
story and later confided in me that she too experienced
similar shadowy figures when she hiked in Joshua Tree. When
I arrived back home, she used sage and other New
Age methods to rid my house of whatever darkness was there. However,
it continued all the way up until I moved to

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Tennessee in twenty fourteen. By far, the most aggressive was
the transparent entities that were in Joshua Tree. I felt
like everything was about to end when I encountered them.
I've always wondered if my mother experienced more than what
happened that night. I'm not sure what the hell happened
those few days in Joshua Tree National Park, but from

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what I can remember, during the moments when daytime would
turn into night and snap I felt like I was
falling down or being suspended in mid air before completely.

Speaker 1 (58:37):
Realizing what was going on.

Speaker 2 (58:39):
I also remember a strong urge to go to Joshua Tree.
I would think about going all the time, and when
I finally went, almost felt like I was being called
there by something. My sister often talks about my first
week living in Tennessee. She said that she felt like
a demon was attached to me. One night as I
slept on her couch. I woke up with her putting

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holy water on my head and saying a prayer over me.
But I don't believe in all that I used to.
But nowadays I have an easier time believing in alien
abductions and portals rather than being followed around by demon.
But then again, who knows?

Speaker 1 (59:14):
Right.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
Finally, I can tell you, with one hundred percent honesty,
I experienced all the above. I can't explain what it
or what they were, but I can tell you I
feel like my life was spared for some strange reason.
Perhaps I didn't meet the requirements for whatever it is
they need. Looking back now, I would never have gone

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hiking alone. But again, I remember this irresistible urge to
go to Joshua Tree and would frequently feel like I
was being called.

Speaker 4 (59:46):
There hiking transhititting on one of our most popular mountain peaks.

Speaker 5 (59:50):
A woman from out of state dying after trying to
hike Camelback Mountain. Fire official stay she became overheated on
the Echo Canyon trail, but instead of waiting for rescue crews,
she went to find help herself. Then a deadly discovery.
Her body later found near the mountain, right outside a home.

Speaker 4 (01:00:06):
A woman found dead near Camelback Mountain was hiking with
a Phoenix cop, and tonight we know the woman's name
is Angela Tremonte, a thirty one year old visiting from Boston.
She was found dead Friday after separating from that cop
to turn back down the mountain in the summer heat.

Speaker 3 (01:00:22):
And she thought because he was a police officer, she
was sick and she wasn't. And I sent him the
address where it was. It took them three hours to
find her. And when I talked to Dario that night
and asked him, when was the last time you saw
my daughter, she said six hours ago, So not you

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w The police may not be investigating this, but I
won't stop. I will not stop there is something missing
that I, as a mother, did not put my finger on.

Speaker 2 (01:00:57):
Hello friends, today we're going to bring in a strange
story about a first date hike that resulted in a
young woman's death. Thirty one year old Angela Tremonte was
visiting Phoenix, Arizona for the first time when she and
a local police officer named Dario Disdar decided to go
on a hike for their first date. The couple went

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to Echo Canyon Trail near Scottsdale, Arizona. Echo Canyon Trail
is a two point five mile heavily trafficked out and
back trail that offers scenic views and beautiful landscapes. The
trail is rated as difficult, but Angela and Dario weren't concerned,
as it was later reported that Dario was extremely familiar
with the mountain and hiked that exact trail often. According

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to reports, they started hiking together around ten am with
no water, but split up. Dario, an off duty police officer,
stated that he was a local and did this hike
all the time, and that she was going to go
as far as she could and turn around. According to
an incident report followed by an unnamed park Ranger. Now,
according to what Dario told the authority, he and angel
were going for a day hike together for their first

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date on July thirtieth. He reported that she became overheated
when they were about halfway up the trail and told
him she was going to.

Speaker 1 (01:02:09):
Head back down to the car.

Speaker 2 (01:02:11):
Dario want I had to finish the hike, assuming he
would just meet her back at the vehicle when he
was done. Angela wanted him to take pictures of the
view from the top of the mountain so she could
share them on her social media camps.

Speaker 1 (01:02:24):
He finished his.

Speaker 2 (01:02:25):
Hike, but when he got back down to the car,
Angela wasn't there and wasn't anywhere inside. Her belongings were
still in the car, however, and this is when Dario's
police officer instincts kicked in and he decided to report
it to the authorities that his date was missing. Mark
Ranger spoke with him on the mountain and the search commenced. Immediately,
search teams arrived and began looking around common areas on

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the mountain where people can get off the trail.

Speaker 1 (01:02:49):
And get lost.

Speaker 2 (01:02:51):
More than thirty fire personnel and a police helicopter scoured
the region looking for the missing woman. Initially, thorities were
suspicious of Dario because they thought his initial statement was
changing the more he retold what happened that day. However,
it was later realized that he had been misquoted by
local news media and therefore misunderstood. A Phoenix police spokesperson

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stated that the police department was not informed as to
what the park rangers and officials had already asked Dario
about the incident. Angela Tremonte was originally from the Boston
area and was visiting Phoenix for the first time, specifically
to meet and go on a date with Daria. They
had met and been chatting online, mainly by Instagram. It

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was less than twenty four hours from her arrival that
Angela went missing and was then found deceased. Around four
Bruce found Tremonte unconscious near home along the side of
the mountain. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Police
say no traumatic injuries were observed during the initial investigation
or during the autopsy. Police say Tremante had her cell

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phone with her when she was found. Fire officials involved
in the search stated they believe she was trying to
signal to someone in the homes there near the mountain
to get some help. She must have known she was
in trouble, but most likely had no cell service to
call anyone for help or self. At this time, there
is no evidence to indicate foul play is suspected in
connection with her tragic death. Police say Dario Diisdar has

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been granted personal time off and has been offered resources
to deal with this tragedy. According to the Maricopa County
Medical Examiner's website, Angela died of environmental heat exposure. Her
death was ruled accidental by local and parked authorities. Angela
Tremonte's friends set up a gofund me account to bring
her body back to the Boston area. Angela's mother, however,

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isn't satisfied with the medical Examiner's findings. She's looking for
answers after her daughter's cause of death was ruled to
be from accidental heat exposure. I'm frustrated, said Nancy Tremonte,
Angela's mother. My daughter was an Instagram person. She posted everything,
thousands of photos per day, and she was always in

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the picture. And there's not one picture of her going
up the mountain or even in Arizona. She said, none
of it makes sense, but as we said, America Opac
County Medical Examiner's office did recently list Tremante's death as
accidental and as a result of heat exposure. Phoenix police
had previously stated investigators didn't find anything suspicious about Tremonte's death. However,

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Tremante's family and friends have had suspicions about the circumstances
surrounding her death all along, especially since the Offdedy police
officer claimed he and Tremante didn't bring any water with
him on a hike in the middle of the summer.
Angela's cousin doesn't believe it.

Speaker 1 (01:05:47):
It's difficult because.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
We are all mourning her, but we can't fall back
and be sad about the situation. We all have to fight,
said Gabrielle Letusio, Angela's cousin. Angela was found ceased in
a backyard off the trail. Investigators believe she's in a
desperate search for water. Speaking about travel to Arizona to
meet the officer, she was excited but nervous, said her cousin.

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She also made it a point to drink a whole
gallon of water every day, so it's very hard to
believe that she would go on a hike in Arizona
where it was one hundred and four degrees and not
take any water. Autopsy reports recently released by the County
Medical Examner's office showed no major regularities that were uncovered
that would indicate Tremante's death could be tied to something

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other than heat exhaustion. A toxicology report did show that
Tormante had traces of amphetamine in her system, although her
family told twelve News she had a prescription for adderall,
which can produce high levels of amphetamine in the blood.
Ramonte had three hundred and fifty nanograms for mid leader
of amphetamine in her system.

Speaker 1 (01:06:54):
At the time for death.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
According to the report, adults who fatally overdose on amphetamine
have on average nine thousand nanograms per mole leader in
their system. The autopsy report additionally turned up irregular, linear,
dried red abrasions on Tremonte's body that ranged in size
between four and ten centimeters. An examination of her head

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neck revealed no detectable abnormalities, according to the report. Report
also stated that Tremonte's bone, framework and soft tissues also
appeared normally. Phoenix police had previously said investigators didn't find
anything suspicious about Tremonte's death. They further indicated no disciplinary
measures will be taken against Dario because no prime has

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been found. Hello friends, Today we're going to take a
look at legends, disappearances, and stories of survival in Joshua
Tree National Park, California. Joshua Tree National Park is home

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to passed and protected land located in southern California. The
area was first designated as a National monument in nineteen
thirty six a President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and was later
given national park status in nineteen ninety four when the
United States Congress passed the California Desert Protection Act. The
park spans more than seven hundred and ninety thousand acres,

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and over half is reserved as wilderness. The park is
well known for the tree that inspired its name, the
Joshua Tree. Scientifically, it's known as the Yuckup brevifolio, and
as a member of the agave family, Joshua trees grow
in a wide variety of formations, fromin a sparsely place
to thick and crowded forests. According to the National Park Service,

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of the mid nineteenth century, Mormon immigrants had made their
way across the Colorado River and into the area that
is now the National park.

Speaker 1 (01:08:52):
Legend has it that.

Speaker 2 (01:08:53):
These pioneers named the tree after the biblical figure Joshua,
seeing the limbs of the tree has outstretched as supplication,
guiding the travelers westward. Joshua Tree National Park is a
meeting ground between the low lying western reach of the
Sonoran Desert and the more vegetated high Mahabi Desert. The
merging deserts give the park a unique landscape with an

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abrupt transition between the Sonoran and Mahabi ecosystems. Joshua Tree
offers visitors a variety of outdoor activities, including the typical hiking, biking, camping,
and horseback riding. There are large boulders throughout the park
that make it a well known rock climbing destination, and
the night skies provide crystal clear stargazing. The natural beauty

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of the park is a key factor in its popularity.
But despite all the beauty found in Joshua Tree, inexplicable
things have been known to happen here, some of which
are truly horrifying. Let's look at local legends, disappearances as
survival stories from Joshua Tree National Park. First up desert dungeon.

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In the depths of Joshua Tree National Park, there's a
strange cave, which is actually an enclosure constructed around a
large boulder and sealed with an iron door. They're long
enduring legends attached to this cave. Some people think perhaps
it was where local farm restored dynamite. Others theorized it
was where rustlers or gold thieves kept their loot. The

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energy it radiates, however, is much more sinister, darker, more disturbing.
Legends exist, probably rooted in truth about the cave being
used to hold people captive. One story, with many versions,
maintains a local family and born a horribly disfigured and
mentally impaired son who was huge and monstrous. The family

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hit him away from society, locking him up in this
rocket iron desert dungeon. The father would bring in food,
but the poor soul spent his days and nights of prisoner.
Growing tired of this miserable existence, the disfigured man broke
out of his prison and fled, leaving the iron door
ajar for his father to find. Upon his return. Searching

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far and wide, the father couldn't find his son. Reports
and rumors began to surface about random brutal attacks on
travelers who sustained injuries like they were surrogants being punished
for someone else's horrible misgivings. The legend holds that the
tortured man was never caught, and he, or whatever's left
of him, could still be out there today roaming Joshua Tree,

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looking for unsuspecting travelers to make them atone for his
father's sins. Next up, we have the Yuckaman. The first
reported sighting of the Yucker Man happened in nineteen seventy one,
provided by a source not normally keen on believing in
the other worldly. A United States marine was on guard

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duty at the base in Joshua Tree's twenty nine Palms.
Well into his overnight shift. The marine was keeping posts
duty required to when a huge and seemingly human man
came out.

Speaker 1 (01:12:00):
Of the darkness towed him.

Speaker 2 (01:12:02):
As the burly being drew closer, the marine caught sight
of the man's excessive hair growth as abnormally long arms
which hung well below the knees. The marine lifted his
rifle and gave an order to halt, but then the
strange man lunged forward and snatched the rifle away, surprising
the marine and knocking him off stands. He was startled,

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but caught himself and watched as the wild man bent
the metal rifle barrel in half with his bare hands.
The broad shouldered beast of a man gave a grunt
and then knocked the marine unconscious, perhaps from the butt
of his own weapon. When he came to, the giant
man was gone, but his disfigured gun lay next to him.

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Even so, the marine couldn't move. The blow he sustained
had caused a lot of damage. He lay there half
conscious until the next morning, when he was found by
the relief guard. Reportedly, both the CIA and the FBI
were brought in to investigate. As this wasn't the only
incident to be reported, There were at least two other

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sightings that same night. One report described the man as
being nearly twelve feet tall, but with a smaller, unknown
figure by its side. Several people also reported that their
dogs had barked and acted strangely that evening. In the
same year, there were reports from employees at Joshua Tree
stating they had also seen the large, hairy figure In

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nineteen seventy nine, a couple on a trip to Joshua
Tree since they were forced to slam on the brakes
in their car one night when what they described as
a large hairy man stood in the middle of the
road near their condominium in Desert Hot Springs. They recalled
that he just stepped from behind a yuca bush and
stood in front of the car refused to move. The

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couple claimed the creature's hairy chest was the size of
a refrigerator and its arms were abnormally long.

Speaker 1 (01:13:54):
Sounds familiar.

Speaker 2 (01:13:56):
It had lengthy tan hair that swished back and forth
as it walked away and dis appeared into the night,
but only after frightening them. Senseless evidence was left behind it.
Yet more your Commands sightings In nineteen seventy nine in
him At, California, This beast seen on two separate occasions.
This being left behind seventeen footprints that were said to

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be a foot and a half long, spanning six feet apart.
Two prominent bigfoot researchers worked the area looking for further information,
but nothing more has surfaced.

Speaker 1 (01:14:28):
Skin Walkers.

Speaker 2 (01:14:31):
Stories of skinn walkers inhabiting the Joshua Tree area date
back many centuries. The Native American Navajo tribe first experienced
these beings several hundred years ago, calling them y Nagloshi,
meaning he who walks on all fours. The legend of
the skin walkers hold forth that they are actually human
shape shifters that were once shamans of the Navajo tribe.

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The shamans, who used their gifts for evil like hurting
or cursing people, were turned into skin walkers, able to
take the form of various animals like fox, birds or coyotes.
The Navajo people tried to keep their existence from becoming
known to the outside world, but over a century ago,
weird and often terrifying things began happening to outsiders in

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Joshua Tree, so terrifying, in fact, that some Navajo people
refuse to this date to speak of the skin walkers
for fear of drawing them to them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:24):
Campers, visitors, and other.

Speaker 2 (01:15:26):
Travelers are reported being attacked and often taunted by these beings.
Some campers have claimed that when a skin walker is near,
it's like they're being drawn toward whatever the creature is mimicking.
Skinn Walker attacks are sometimes even deadly, with evil beings
sinking their teeth into human flesh and ripping people apart.
Those who live to tell the tale of a skinwalker

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attack are never the same, and they always carry scars,
both of the physical and psychological varieties. Next, let's look
at some strange disappearances. Joshua Tree National Park. Paul Miller,
fifty one years old, disappeared on July thirteenth, twenty eighteen,

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in Joshua Tree National Park. He was on vacation with
his wife, Stephanie at the time his disappearance. They were
traveling in celebration of their twenty sixth wedding anniversary. Backwoods camping, hiking,
and kayaking were typical pastimes for the couple. They were
in great shape and loved the outdoors. Paul last spoke

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with his wife when he told her that he was
going out for one last hike in the park. He
planned on hiking the popular forty nine Palms Oasis Trail
before they were to begin their journey back to Ontario, Canada.
He left their hotel room around nine am that morning
and drove to the trailhead. When Paul didn't return by
the hotel checkout time, Stephanie became worried. Around noon, she

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contacted park officials and a search and rescue mission was launched.
Paul's rental car was found where he parked at the trailhead,
but he wasn't with it. Brazers hiked the trail looking
for him, but to no avail. Paul also did have
a cell phone on him, but this was not out
of the ordinary. The search for Paul continued for five
days with not so much as a trace of evidence

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servicing aside from his rental car. The search included over
six hundred volunteers, multiple agencies, k nines, high tech equipment,
and lots of hope, but nothing was found. Park superintendent
David Smith said, we have a witness who saw Paul
at the trailhead that morning, but that's all. Another visitor
from England that was at the park that morning reported

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seeing Paul at around nine am, walking quickly and with
purpose about halfway down the trail. No other sightings were reported.

Speaker 1 (01:17:43):
However.

Speaker 2 (01:17:43):
On December twenty first, twenty nineteen, in PS authorities and
San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department reported that human remains had
been found in a remote and rocky part of Joshua Tree.
Official State of the discovery came about through photographs taken
by a drone fly over the area in November. On
December twenty bark Ranger's height to the area where they

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found human skeletal remains in personal be longings. There was
no identification with the remains, which appeared to have been
there for quite some time. Upon the discovery of these remains,
the Miller family prepared themselves for the likelihood that those
belonged to Paul. It's been a tough journey, waiting, waiting, waiting.
Then you hear he's been found. It doesn't make it

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any easier. Stephanie Miller said in a phone interview. Speculation
is that whatever happened that caused his death happened quickly,
she said, possibly a heart attack or heatstroke. He was
found in a shaded area and still had water and food.
It appeared he had made the height to forty nine
Palms Oasis, but was coming back from trail the wrong way.

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Early in the search for Paul, teams had gotten close
enough to where the remains were found that he would
have heard and responded when they called out his name,
she said, adding there is comfort knowing he didn't suffer long.
I hated to think he was suffering and we couldn't
find him. As of January nineteenth, twenty twenty two, time
visit recording, Paul Miller's case has no further updates. Another

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disappearance in Joshua Tree was that of William Michael Euasco.
Sixty five year old William Michael Owasco, known as Bill,
disappeared on June twenty fourth, twenty ten, from Joshua Tree
National Park while on.

Speaker 1 (01:19:26):
A day hike.

Speaker 2 (01:19:28):
Bill lived in Marietta, Georgia, along with his fiancee, Mary Winston.
Bill was a strong hiker with experience in the wilderness,
and he had loved Joshua Tree for a long time
and visited the park almost yearly. He was an Army
veteran who had served in Vietnam, and he loved to
be outdoors. It was on a Wednesday, June twenty third,
twenty ten, when Bill arrived at lax from Georgia. He

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rented a white Chrysler Seabring and drove to Rancho Mirage, California.
Bill was staying at a friend's vacant condo on this
teaicular trip. On Thursday, the twenty fourth of June, he
headed for Joshua Tree. Making a couple of calls along
the way, Bill told his weeon say Mary, that he
planned on leaving the park by five pm and was

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going to have dinner that evening at the Pioneer Town
restaurant Pappy in Harriet's. Mary believed that Bill was paying
the hike to a place called Carrie's Castle, which was
the first item on the planet a tenerary he had
left with her. That would have been an ambitious hike
for the time of year, though due to the high
temperatures in the lower portion of Joshua Tree. Mary was

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uncomfortable with the destination choice due to its remoteness, and
had asked him to reconsider. Bill just laughed it off
and gave no indication he was changing his mind. When
Bill failed to call Mary that evening, she grew concerned
and began making calls. Early the next day, Friday, June
twenty five, Joshua Tree officials had been notified of the

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incident and were given a description of Bill's vehicle along
with his itinerary. By mid morning, rangers to check the
trailhead for Carrie's Castle, but found no vehicles. They began
checking other areas of the park, but it wasn't until
four fifty six pm on Saturday, June twenty sixth, the
California Highway Patrol copter spotted Bill's vehicle park at the

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Juniper Flats trailhead, which is a regular starting point for
visitors wanting to hike to the top of Quailed Mountain,
a destination also listed on Bill's itinerary. Ranger stayed with
Bill's car overnight just in case he came back, but
he never showed. There was one known visitor to Jennifer
Flats trailhead on the day Bill disappeared, a hiker named

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Greg Mendoza. At the time of his arrival around ten
twenty am, there was no one else at the trailhead,
but upon his return between five thirty and six pm,
he saw Bill's car. He also saw a single line
of fresh boot tracks going up the old Jennifer Flats Road.
This means that Bill's car had arrived at the parking
lot no earlier than ten twenty am, leaving at minimum

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a near time two and a half hour gap from
his last phone call. It should have only taken Bill
about half that time to reach Juniper Fleat's trailhead, so
It's unknown where Bill was for the extra hour or so.
By this point, an official search and rescue operation began,
focusing mainly on Quail Mountain, but also involving other areas
that he could have accessed from the Jeniper Flats trailhead.

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The official search continued until July fifth to twenty ten,
eleven days after Bill's disappearance, and involved hundreds of search
and rescue personnel Included in these search and rescue teams
from all over southern California where canine units, horseback riders,
civilian volunteers, helicopters.

Speaker 1 (01:22:40):
And a fixed wing aircraft.

Speaker 2 (01:22:42):
In total, about seven hundred and seventy miles of GPS
tracks from ground searchers were logged. Only a red bandana
believed to belong to Bill, was found on the ridge
near Quayle Mountain. Throughout all these efforts, the unofficial search
continued on despite the lack of evidence, with many people
being involved after the official search ended. As of this recording,

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in January of twenty twenty two, Bill Owasco remains missing
and there have been no further updates. Lauren Choe Lauren
Ell Choe disappeared on June twenty eighth, twenty twenty one,
from the area between Morongo and Yucca Valleys in California.
Lauren grew up in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, and went

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mother nickname Elle. She studied music education at Westminster Choir
College and became a high school music teacher. However, Elle
quit her teaching job in the winter of twenty twenty.
She then joined her friend Cody Orle on a road
trip cross country. She joined this trip with the intention
of running a food truck once they arrived at their

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final destination, Bombay Beach, California. By June twenty twenty one,
Elle was working as the private chef for an Airbnb
property called The Whole, owned by Tao Ruspoli. The property's
low between Yucca and Morongo Valleys outside of Joshua Tree
National Park. On June twenty eighth, twenty twenty one, Elle

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took off on a rown. After he did, argument ensued
between she and her friend Cody. The housekeeper at the
Airbnb property claimed that both Ell and Cody had been
drinking since early in the day and l had become
aggravated when Cody refused to let her drive away, so
she took off on foot. Leaving her phone and taking
no food or water. This was around three in the afternoon.

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Cody called the Sheriff's office around five point thirteen PM
when his initial search rail, which included some of their
other friends, came up empty. They didn't find so much
as a single footprint. Elle was last seen wearing a
yellow T shirt and blue jeans shorts when she walked
away from where she was staying. Cody thought she might
have gotten into a vehicle with someone, considering there were

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no tracks and El was supposedly planning on meeting an
unknown individual later in the day anyway, although this theory
was never confirmed. Law enforcement officials as well as search
and rescue teams come to the area on foot, and
included K nine rescue teams and a fixed wing aircraft
which was used to conduct aerial searches. The Morongo Basin

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Sheriff Station told reporters that their helicopter, along with members
of the search and Rescue unit, had been searching for
l since her disappearance. However, they believed that l was
voluntarily missing due to no evidence of foul play. The
Specialized Investigation Divisions of the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department
began assisting in the search rail in September of twenty

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twenty one. However, this was a good three months after
her disappearance. Despite these efforts, no evidence of her whereabouts
came to light. Cody and some of L's other friends
tried bringing awareness toir disappearance by using social media platforms.
They also posted flyers all around the Bombay Beach area,
but nothing came of it. No one came forward claiming

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to have seen L. The search continued until October nine,
twenty one, when investigators found human remains in the regged
terrain of Yucker Valley. On October twenty eighth of twenty
twenty one, it was confirmed that the remains found did
indeed belong to L. Because in matter for passing have
not been released as of this recording. In January of

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twenty twenty two, Lauren Show's case has no further updates. Next,
it brings us to the disappearance of Patrick Lynn Wells.
Thirty eight year old Patrick Wells disappeared on June five,
twenty twenty one, from Joshua Tree National Park. Park spokesperson
Jenny Albrink stated that Patrick was last seen on June fifth,

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when he left to drive to his dad's house. Patrick
was from twenty nine Palms and he was heading Your Riverside.
He never made it to his destination. It was officially
reported missing on June tenth. He's described as a Caucasian male,
five feet ten inches tall, playing about one hundred and
ninety seven pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes,

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as well as a dragon and a United States Marine
Corps insignia tattoo on his arms.

Speaker 1 (01:27:05):
Is believed he was wearing.

Speaker 2 (01:27:06):
A white T shirt, blue jeans, and either tennis shoes
or black work boots at the time of his disappearance.
Park officials found Patrick's truck in the Indian Cove parking
lot of the Rattlesnake Canyon area on the day was
reported missing. Joshua Tree National Park began investigating and organized
a search. The efforts contingent until the search was hauled

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at June twelfth, twenty twenty one, on discovery of human
remains in a hiking area of Joshua Tree. Soon after,
the coroner confirmed the remains belonged to Patrick, though no
cause of his passing was listed. As of January nineteenth,
twenty twenty one. The date of this recording, there have
been no further updates on the Patrick Wells case. Next,

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we have Erica Ashley Lloyd. Thirty seven year old Erica
Lloyd was last seen on June fourteenth, twenty twenty, at
her home in Walnut Creek, it'san Bernardino County, California. She
told her family she was going on a camping trip
to Joshua Tree National Park. Erica's mob Ruth, said she
was just trying to make ends meet, like so many

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others during the pandemic.

Speaker 1 (01:28:14):
Erica owned a.

Speaker 2 (01:28:15):
Salon called Bloom in Alamo, California, but when the mandatory
closures and other restrictions came about due to the pandemic,
Erica's salon closed down and didn't reopen. The trip to
Joshua Tree was to be a chance for her to
get away from all the negativity for a little while.
Erica's described as five foot three inches tall, one hundred

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and twenty five pounds, and house brown hair and blue eyes.
According to Erica's roommate, she said she was planning to
meet other people at Joshua Tree. However, the identities of
those people she was supposedly planning to meet are still
a mystery, and it's unclear if she did indeed meet
up with anyone. After leaving home. On June fourteen, when
Erica didn't return and couldn't be reached, her family reported

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her missing. On June seventeen, authorities found Erica's car, a
black two thousand and six, on to a cord, abandoned
on Shelton Road, north of State Route sixty two, just
east of the twenty nine Palms area. Both the front
and rear windshiels were broken, and the car appeared to
be involved in a sandburm accident which mangled the k

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frame of the car and deployed the airbag. Even so,
California Highway Patrol Officer Casey Simmons said investigators found no
evidence on the roadway consistent with the traffic accident. Some
of Erica's items were found in the car, but there
was no sign of her whereabouts. The police stated there
was no indication of foul play up until the car

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was found. According to Erica's sistern law, Jenna, Erica was
very stressed about the pandemic and the quarantine, and she
was going camping for a few days to sort of unplug.
Despite the fact that she was not an experienced camper.
The most accurate information about Erica's disappearance can be found
on the Bring Erica Home Facebook page. The following is

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an ex deserve from a comment written by Erica's mom
on that page. There have been many stories of Erica
from various podcasts and in the form world, which are
filled with a lot of opinions, theories, and conjectures. The
information that they provide almost never comes from the police
investigators handling Erica's case to verify or corroborate their info.

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We know that Erica was not in a good state
of mind and decided to take this trip to Joshua
Tree Park to clear her head. There's been no indication
of foul play up to winter. Car was found on
Shelton Road, broken down, despite what others may say or think.
We received six sightings of apparently homeless or transient women
fitting Erica's description in the High Desert area, but none

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of them turned out to be her.

Speaker 1 (01:30:46):
Some of what was done to find Erica.

Speaker 2 (01:30:48):
There were search teams from the Sheriff's Department that continued
to search further and further out from the location of
her car. Doug Billings, an expert at mapping and a
cave diver, has extensive knowledge of minds in the air.
He's done numerous searches with the help of his friends.
Family members, and other groups have aided in the searching.
Banners and a billboard were placed in strategic locations in

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the Wonder Valley area asking if anyone helped Erica on
June sixteenth. Erica's ants have sent out hundreds of flyers
to homeless shelters, hospitals, and food banks areas such as
Twenty nine Palms, Joshua Tree, Yucca Valley, Palm Springs, Desert Springs, Indio, Coachella, Riverside,
Morongo Basin, Ontario, Los Angeles, San Diego, Venice Beach, and Moore.

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Erica's mom further states We're continuing to look at offbeat
communes like Slab City and Amboy. Both police investigators from
San Bernino Sheriff's Department and Walnut Creek Police Department are
still actively investigating the case. The case remained active after
Erica's disappearance with no real leads until January of twenty

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twenty one. In February twenty twenty one, Erkins's brother posted
to the Facebook page, saying, as the brother of Erica Lloyd,
I would like to address the public on behalf of
our family. On January thirty first, twenty twenty one, human
remains were discovered by hikers in the vicinity of Danby
Road and Amboy Road in Wonder.

Speaker 1 (01:32:19):
Valley, California.

Speaker 2 (01:32:21):
It is with a heavy heart announce that these remains
have been identified a San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department as
my sister Erica. There is no easy way for me
to tell you all this, and there's no easy way
for any of us to receive it. My wish is
that we can all lean in a little closer, hold
each other up, and remind each other more often that

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we're here for one another with open arms and endless love.
It's what she would have wanted. It's the spirit of
who she was. On May twelfth, twenty twenty one, Erica's
family shared another post on the Bring Erica Home Facebook page,
quoting here, the family of Erica Lloyd would like to
give an update.

Speaker 1 (01:33:01):
The San Bernardino.

Speaker 2 (01:33:02):
County Sheriff's Department Special Investigative Unit has notified us they
are no longer handling Erica's case. After reviewing the extensive
investigation done on Erica's disappearance, they have not found any
indication of foul play. Thus, Erica's case will be turned
back over to the Morongo Basin Station investigators for any
remaining follow up and information. From everything the investigators learned

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and everything we found out from our first trip to
California in June to our last trip in February, all
indications appeared Erica suffered a sudden mental breakdown starting about
a week before she disappeared into the desert. During that
last week, Erica had communicated with various family members, friends,
co workers, and some clients. The common thread from all

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of them referring to Erica was something was off.

Speaker 1 (01:33:49):
And out of place, but they cannot put their finger
on it.

Speaker 2 (01:33:52):
One co worker was so concerned about Erica on June tenth,
six days before she went missing, that she dropped by
Erica's apartment to check up on her and spent a
couple of hours talking to her. It was the following
day when Erica took off on her road trip. It
has been hard to understand how Erica, who was a
free spirit, hardworking and an independent loving mom, could suffer

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a sudden mental psychotic breakdown. Psychosis means losing touch of
the reality is often associated with various serious mental illnesses.
Distress becomes too overwhelming. Anyone may experience these symptoms, triggering
a breakdown. Erica was dealing with the lockdown, learning to
take care of her son in the new stay in

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place world a, forced to shut down of her thriving
Bloom hair studio in Almo, California, losing personal contact with
the clients whose weddings and proms were canceled, and trying
to make some sense to understand where our society was going.
This was overwhelming to her and pushed her over the
edge and into a break Erica was no longer in

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control and the voices she heard had taken over her thoughts.
As a family, we are heartbroken over losing our Erica.
It's difficult to understand what struggles her mind was going
through the last week of her life. We know there
were possibly missed opportunities to stop and help Erica before
she slipped away and waded out into the desert. At

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this point, it's unknown if any person or persons could
have made a difference in stopping or helping her. We
accept what happened to Erica and know she was in
the storm of her life. Joshua treat National Park has
a mystical appeal and is said to be located on
a powerful energy vortex, and Erica was drawn to this place. Unfortunately,

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as beautiful as the desert is, the heat is brutal
and harsh during the day and cold at night. We
know that prior and during this time, Erica was seeking
the Lord, looking for peace and happiness in her life.
While working with the investigators and searchers early on, we
knew there were three main possibilities of how it could
have had up into Erica. All were closely looked at,

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but sadly, on June sixteenth, twenty twenty, Erica was running.
It was hot, She was scared, dehydrated, and not in
touch with the reality. She wandered into the desert and
succumbed to the elements. We know Erica is at peace
now because of Erica's faith in God. He has a
bigger plan for her, which gives us comfort. This is

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our hope. The Lord Jesus Christ brought Erica home.

Speaker 1 (01:36:29):
End to quote.

Speaker 2 (01:36:31):
Any updates that the family wishes to share in the
future will be posted on the Facebook page titled bring
Erica Home.

Speaker 1 (01:36:43):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:36:43):
On lighter note, not everybody that goes missing in Joshua
Tree perishes. Here are some amazing true stories of survival.
Claire Nelson. Thirty six year old Claire Nelson nearly died
alone in the desert in May twenty eighteen. Claire, originally
from New Zealand, was visiting friends who lived near Joshua

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Tree National Park, where she was to house sit for
them while they left for vacation. During her stay, Claire
planned on adventuring through the desert and connecting with nature.
Claara was experiencing the outdoors, and she was a fiercely
independent person, so much so that she had been pushing
people away for some time. But she loved exploring and

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also sharing her travel experiences online. She was a freelance
travel writer at the time of the Joshua Tree visit
that changed her life forever. After her friends left for
their journey to Scotland, Claire was on to her own adventures.
She left for a day hike to Joshua Tree, planning
to explore the Lost Balms Oasis trail. However, Claire hadn't

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told anybody specifically where she was going, only that she
planned on exploring inside Joshua Tree. It started out as
a day like any other. Claire packed the day bag
with a spare t shirt, several liters of water, and
a meager lunch a hard boiled egg, a bagel, and
a chocolate bar. Schussel carried other items that were usually

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not essential for just a few hours outdoors but later
proved life saving a plastic bag, a bandanna, a park map,
and sunscreen. With her daypack in place, Claire drove to
Joshua Tree and parked. It was hot, but Claire was
confident and enjoying herself in the beauty of the desert.

Speaker 1 (01:38:31):
She was waised into.

Speaker 2 (01:38:32):
Her heike when she unknowingly wandered off the designated trail
and began following a dry river bed, and there was
a bowlder she had to climb on the path she
was traveling. She climbed up, then began testing her footing.
Everything seemed okay until her foot started slipping and she
became unsteady. She lost her balance completely and went crashing

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over twenty six feet down into a clearing not much
bigger than she was, shattering her pelvis in the process.
The fall knocked the breath out of her, and the
pain was excruciating and unrelenting. Claire recalled, I'd landed amongst
these large boulders, and I couldn't move. I couldn't sit up,
I couldn't stand up. It was indescribably painful. Unable to move,

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Claire immediately tried using her cell phone to call for help,
but she had no service. The predicament she was in
was life threatening. Indeed, she was all alone in the
desert with a shattered pelvis, barely enough water for a
day and a half, and contending with the California desert heat,
as well as unusually high numbers of coyote, rattlesnakes and

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other dangers. I felt more vulnerable than I could ever
have imagined being in my life, Claire said of the ordeal.
She immediately began recording videos of herself, messages to friends
and family, as well as documentation of her situation. Claire
occasionally tried to move, especially to find shade, but when

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she tried, there was a crunching, clicking sound coming from
her pelvic region along with searing, my numbing pain. She
couldn't budge. She was ashamed to admit it, but this
hike was not the first time she'd left for an
adventure without telling someone of her plans.

Speaker 1 (01:40:16):
I know better, I know the rules.

Speaker 2 (01:40:18):
Always tell someone where you're going, said Claire, who wrote
about her experience in her book Things I Learned From Falling.
The Reality of her situation set in, and Claire really
didn't want to spend the night alone on the desert floor,
but she had no other option. Nobody knew to check
in with her or to expect her back at a
certain time. The fact that she might die out there

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alone was not lost on Claire. She kept recording videos,
then turning her phone in digital camera off to conserve
the battery life. She made herself eat the hard boiled eggs,
since it would go bad anyway, and she knew she
needed the protein if she was going to survive this tragedy.
Her determination and will live kicked in, however, and Claire

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prepared herself for the nighttime. After nightfall, there were bats
flying around, and Claire hoped they weren't the kind that
liked to bite people. Her imagination went wild, and she
was sure at times that she was seeing snakes coming
out of the rocks, though in reality snakes rarely come
out at night. Thankfully, she survived until morning one night

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in the desert alone and injured. Down only two more
to go, Claire tried her best to protect herself from
the elements.

Speaker 1 (01:41:30):
She used a stick to rub sunscreen on her legs.

Speaker 2 (01:41:34):
Sun is unforgiving during the desert summers and can quickly
do significant damage to her skin as well as dehydrate
it's even faster. She rationed what was left for her
food and water as long as she could, but neither
It lasted very long. The lack of water grew unbearable.
Dehydration is a god awful business, Claire wrote in her book.

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It starts in the mouth. The initial pang of craving
quite subtle and easy to ignore, but the signals get
more insistent over time. Your tongue becomes increasingly dry and scratchy,
thickening like a woolen minton, sticking against the size of
your mouth like velcrow. From there, you feel it in
your head. A slowly increasing pressure throbs inside your skull,

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as if your brain is shrinking in on itself, withering
like a piece of dried fruit. She fantasized about diet
coke and other cold refreshments, even willing them to be real.
Claire had no choice. Once her water ran out, she
even urinated in a bottle and drank it for hydration.
While unpleasant, at least it helped keep her alive. She

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used the park map, the bandana, and the plastic bag
which she attached to a stick to cover herself and
block out the sun. Claire continued applying sunscreen, recycling her urine,
and making videos, but there was nothing else she could do.
She was trapped in the middle of the desert with
no way of knowing whether anyone was searching for She

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battled the scorching heat on the second day and dreaded nightfall.
She didn't want to spend another night alone in the desert. Naturally,
she hadn't slept and delirium was setting in. She made
it through the night with sheer willpower and determination. For
the third day, Claire's mind was really playing tricks on her.

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She thought sheard helicopters and ambulances, but it was all
in her head. She could see birds of prey circling overhead,
waiting for her to die so they could grab an
easy meal. However, after a couple of days of social
media silence, the friends Claire was house sitting for grew concern.
It wasn't like her not to post, especially when she

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was somewhere beautiful like Joshua Tree. They contacted friends from
the area and had them go to the house to
check for Claire. When they didn't see her car or
find her at the home, Claire was reported missing. Joshua
Tree National Park officials found her car, and there were
at least two days of chalk marks, which were used
to tell whether or not a vehicle has been moved.

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It was clear that Claire had left the car and
not come back for quite some time. The search and
rescue mission was launched. The searchers were starting where her
car was found and working outwards. They made several rounds
in a helicopter near where Claire had fallen, but they
didn't find her at first. After all, she was trapped
between large boulders where it was difficult to see. They

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called out over the helicopter's PA system, we are looking
for a missing hiker. If you can hear us, please
make movement. The search crew didn't know it, but Claire
was screaming for help as she heard the helicopter and
it was real this time. She tied the plastic bag
on the end of her stick with a hair tie
and began waving it frantically.

Speaker 1 (01:44:50):
It wasn't until.

Speaker 2 (01:44:51):
Their last and final sweep of the area that they
saw tiny and obscure a plastic grocery bag waving back
and forth. They called doubt that they could see her
and told her that help was on the way. Due
to the terrain, the helicopter couldn't land in the area,
so rescuers had to hike into where she was at
the save her. Claire knew at that point that she

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was going to be okay. After three nights and four
days alone in the desert, Claire was rushed to a
hospital where she received emergency surgery. Thankfully, she made it
through okay and spent the next several months recuperating. She
had to do extensive rehabilitation and spend some time in
a wheelchair before she was able to learn to walk again.

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During her time in that awful situation, Claire realized that
she had been pushing people away, and although she was
connecting with others in social media, there was a lack
of true human connection in her life. She made the
decision that if she lived through this ordeal, she was
going to do better for herself and for others. Claire

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triumphally returned to Joshua Tree a year later with friends
and finally finished the hike started that almost ended her life. Today,
Claire's thankful to be alive, and she vowed to never
forget what happened to her and to use it as motivation.
Her book, Things I Learned from Falling can be found
on Amazon. Next up in her survivor's Holly Jocum, Thirty

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two year old Holly Jocum was finding a camping trip
on December twenty seventh, twenty twenty, to Big Bear Campground
in California. She packed her things and loaded her two
dogs into RV as she drove to Big Bear. She
was excited for the trip, but unfortunately when she arrived,
she found the camp site was closed. Around four forty

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five pm that day, she contacted family and told them
about a change of plans. She was going to drive
an hour and fifteen minutes away and camp in the
desert at Joshua Tree instead, and said she'd call when
she arrived. But by seven point thirty that evening, Holly's
phone was off for otherwise was unreachable, and her family
hadn't heard from her. They were rightfully concerned. In contact

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to the authorities, they filed a missing person report and
began reaching out on social media for help locating Holly.
Her sister Laurie made a post asking for anyone who
might have seen Holly to please come forward. Holly had
randomly selected the camp site and Joshua treat from her phone.

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Although she was an experienced camper, the site she chose
was unfamiliar to her. On the way to the site,
the terrain had become difficult, and she decided to camp
out in a secluded area until the next day. The
night came and went, and the next morning Holly woke
to find two feet of snow had fallen through the night.

Speaker 1 (01:47:44):
Holly wrote about the ordeal.

Speaker 2 (01:47:46):
By Tuesday, there was nearly two feet of very fine
fresh powder and I was stuck. There was also no
cell service where she had parked, so she and her
two dogs were truly out there alone for three days.
The dogs camped out waiting for the snow to melt,
but that never happened. Holly decided she had to do
something Friday morning, she planned on hiking back down the mountain,

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at least until she had cell service. The snow was
too deep for her dogs, so she loaded them into
two separate backpacks and began the six mile hike back down.
Eventually she reached a place that had phone service, and
she called in her location to her mom and the authorities.
Search teams had been looking for and news of her
safety was caused for celebration.

Speaker 1 (01:48:30):
Holly met the sheriff at.

Speaker 2 (01:48:31):
The bottom of the mountain, who drove her to Cabazon,
where she met with her mother.

Speaker 1 (01:48:36):
Thankfully, neither Holly nor.

Speaker 2 (01:48:37):
Her dogs were harmed during their time stuck on the mountain,
and they had a happy ending, unlike so many others
who go missing. Holly wrote, I'm so thankful for everyone
who was involved in searching for me, for everyone who
shared the missing person's post, and mostly for my family
who tried with every ounce they had to bring me back.
The experiences sure to remind Holly, as well as Restos,

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of the dangers of the wilderness and just how quickly
things can change when you're at the mercy of mother nature.
At our last Tailor's survival, Robert Ringo sixty seven year
old Robert Ringo was on a day hike one Thursday
in June of twenty twenty near Quayle Mountain in Joshua
Tree National Park when tragedy struck. Robert had gotten ready

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that morning with nothing out of the ordinary. He drove
to Joshua Tree and once parked, shared his location with
his son, something he always did. He brought along two
liters of water for the hike, but not much more
in the way of supplies. The temperatures from the high
nineties the desert heat was sweltering. Robert is an avid

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hiker and used to these conditions, so he wasn't worried,
especially since he was only planning a short hike. He
felt good starting out on his walk put aways into
the hike while admiring the views and enjoying the outdoors,
Robert somehow lost his footing and fell to the ground,
breaking his left femur. The area he was in had
no cell service, so he was stranded. After his fall,

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I started trying to at least turn over, and when
I did, he said, it was just unbelievable pain. Robert
began recording himself since he had no way of signaling
for help. His cries for help can be heard in
the videos shared with news media. Robert knew his two
leaders of water wouldn't last for long. He tried to
at least get himself onto his back, and finally managed

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after some time lying there. He knew he had to
eat something to keep his energy up. I somehow scooted
it up this place, ate some juniper berries and saw
what I thought might be flowers, but they were all dry,
so I wasn't going to eat them, he said. He
continued recording videos and trying to conserve water. This is
the first time I've experienced no saliva, he said in

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one of the videos he took. He knew if he
could just hold on long enough, someone would be looking
for him. He mentions having a confidence and a faith
that he was going to survive. The next day, Friday,
Robert's son Ryan alerted officials of his father's missing status.
He saw on his phone that his dad's last known
location was Joshua Tree. The search and rescue efforts began

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searching in Earnest for Robert. Knowing the summer heat is
dangerous to be in with only limited water supply, time
was of the essence. Rescue teams searched for hours, but
to no avail. It wasn't until Saturday morning, nearly two
days after Robert had taken his fall, that he finally
heard a rescue copter. The Joshua Tree Search and Rescue

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team retrieved Robert and brought him to the Desert Regional
Medical Center. Robert had emergency surgery on his leg and
later made a full recovery. In closing things, like we've
covered in this video, there continue to happen daily with
their national parks being hotspots for all manner strange occurrences,
some of them natural, some of them bordering on the

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supernatural and beyond. While there could be any number of
things or a combination of things to blame for these cases,
one thing is certain. We can never be sure something
won't happen to us. It's recommended that everyone who plans
on being with international parks or out in the wilderness
in general, carry a personal locator beacon at all times.

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The speaking transmits to the stress signal with its location
when activated. So what do you think is happening in
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I look forward to your comments, but ask that you
please keep them friendly and respectful until next time. Take
care of yourselves and each other, and I'll see you
just a little farther on down the trail. I'm Steve Stockton,
and I'll talk to you next time.

Speaker 6 (01:52:58):
A woman disappeared last year, and she was gone for
five days, and she was interviewed by a physician and
told the physician that when she was in the woods,
there were strange little people that were looking at her,
hiding behind bushes, and when she asked them for help,
they wouldn't talk to her, and they wouldn't come out
of the bush, and they tried to conceal themselves along
the Appalachian Trail. There have been similar stories where a

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woman was chased on the Appalachian Trail by men that
she could hear sometimes see, but ran for two weeks
trying to stay away from them. So there are these
small little quips about what happened that kind of give
me an insight as to what these people say happened.
But the reality is is that there's never enough there
to really say with a surety what transpired.

Speaker 2 (01:53:48):
A common tale among all the indigenous native people. Seemingly
throughout the world, stories of little people abound. The Irish
have their Eleprakaans, the nordicsvil have their gnomes and elves,
and many other societies and cultures share similar folk legends
and stories. The Cherokee, in particular, have a huge wealth

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of myths and legends, some of which go back not
just centuries, but thousands, perhaps even tens of thousands of years,
to when the planet was formed and how all the
different systems of nature on our planet Earth work. The
ancient Cherokee, whom, as far as is known, were the
first people to inhabit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park,

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they have a legend or a story for everything you
can imagine, animals, insects, plants, trees, flowers, herbs, mountains, creeks, lakes, rivers, etc.
Et cetera, ad infinitum. The rich oral tradition of the
Cherokee people have ensured that these tales are passed down
from generation to generation. Even in the twenty first century

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of high technology, their initial jatives underway to make sure
that all the Cherokee legends and stories are recorded for posterity.
One of the most fascinating and eerie stories in the
Cherokee legend repository are the various and numerous accounts of
what the Cherokee people call the yunwe Sunsday, which roughly

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translates into English as the little People. In the stories
of old and even into modern day, these entities are
sometimes described as being from the ethereal plane, but other
times the Cherokee consider them to be a small human
like race of people about two to four feet high.
Some versions of the Cherokee legend even have the little

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people initially arriving in the area board of flying silver disk,
so perhaps the little people of the Smokies are actually
little men from Mars. These little people of legend are
also believed to be shape shifters of a sort, and
use this to their advantage when deciding on what form
to assume. According to the Cherokee legends, each of these

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little people can morph into three or four different types
of spirits or entities. While sometimes the little people can
be helpful, it seems they are especially good at finding
lost articles if applied with certain foods or drinks as
a reward, seeming to give preference to small children and
the very old and or infirm. These self same little

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folk can turn meat and dangerous at the drop of
a hat if they are disrespected or feel like their
space has been intruded upon. Oddly enough, like the little
men van Winkle came across playing ten pins in the forest,
the little people of the Great Smoky Mountains are said
to possess the very power to cloud the human mind,

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resulting in confusion. They are even those among the Cherokee
tribe who believe that this is why people are at
risk of going missing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
You've upset the little people and will be allowed to
wander the wilderness for your trends aggressions against them. A
rather chilling thought, isn't it. Said To have the aforementioned

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ability to disguise themselves in a number of ways, the
little people have the ability to remain invisible and undetected
in general, unless surprised by the appearance of a human
for example. There are times, however, that they can and
do choose to reveal themselves to the populace at large.
When this happens. There's usually not a single sighting, but

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a sudden flap or wave of sightings over a short
period of time, which then subsides. Some people claim that
these mass sightings only occur every generation or so. Then
the little people, satisfied that they have scared and confused
the humans, go back into hiding and enjoy their peaceful
mountain ways. It is also said in the stories and

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legends that the little people live as close to nature
as possible, which would explain their fondness for such beautiful
wilderness as we have here amongst the mountaintops and streams
within the Great Smoky Mountains.

Speaker 1 (01:58:02):
They seem to be.

Speaker 2 (01:58:03):
Very spiritual beings by nature, and even when they do
attempt to teach humans a lesson, the lesson will contain
certain aspects traits they feel we need as a people, respect, kindness,
and above all, a joy for life and living. When
the Little People are spotted by humans, it usually seems

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to be because they are so enraptured with the activity
that they are involved in at the time. Some common
examples of sottings that the little people have them involved
in dancing, singing, or some form of drumming or otherwise
making nature music. While there is no one particular place
that is better than any other to spot the little
people in the Great Smoky Mountains, the areas of the

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most untamed nature seem like a best bed kid's cove,
the north shore of Fontana Lake, the deep woods near Elton,
Lont Lecotte, and Klingman's Dome. Interestingly enough, these areas are
also purported to be among the most haunted within the
National Park, and also places where people have gone missing.

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Perhaps the spirits of the natural and the spirits of
the supernatural both walk hand in hand among the dark
forests and quiet glens of this Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Speaker 1 (01:59:18):
If you do happen to be one of the few
or fortunate.

Speaker 2 (01:59:21):
Enough to spot the little folk, remember to keep your
distance and do not approach them, lest you be mesmerized
and left to wonder about the mountains. Perhaps forever, reverence
and respect should always keep you safe. While this may
sound tongue in cheek to our modern ways and means
the cheroke he did and still do take the cautionary

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tales very seriously, sometimes avoiding certain places in the mountains altogether.
Hello friends now often said that flying is the safest
way to travel. While plane crashes are often highlighted by

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the media, the occurrence is extremely rare. In fact, statistics
suggests that you are more likely to die driving to
the airport than flying across the country. According to a
recent Huvington Post article, the past ten years have been
the best in the country's aviation history, with only one
hundred and fifty three fatalities. To put this statistic into perspective,

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the Associated Press determined it is equivalent to two deaths
for each one hundred million passengers flying commercially. To pair
that tiny fraction with the three hundred thousand plus deaths
from motor vehicles that take place each year. With all
this being said, it comes no surprise that when an
accident or a crash does happen involving any form of

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commercial aircraft, people want answers as to what went wrong.
On Christmas Eve nineteen seventy five, one particular plane, Assessna,
highlighted by a man named Peter Gibbs, departed from an
airfield adjacent to the Glen Force A hotel of the
Isle of mull in Scotland, and has left us with
many perplexing not to mention troubling questions that have yet

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to be answered. The story has come to be known
as the Great mull Air Mystery. Peter gibbs almost lifelong
passion for flying began right around to the end of
the Second World War. The fifty five year old businessman
and forged a reputation in property development as a managing
director of Gibbs and Ray. After spending the day working

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on an investment in a hotel on the Isle of Sky,
Peter Gibbs sat down for dinner in the restaurant of
the Glen Forest.

Speaker 1 (02:01:43):
A hotel.

Speaker 2 (02:01:44):
After he had eaten, he suddenly decided he wanted to
take his plane out for a quick night flight. Peter
Gibbs was a driven man with a no nonsense reputation,
and when the hotel staff tried to warn him that
this would be a bad idea, mainly due to a
band on knife fights in the area and also there
would be no landing lights from the US as a
guide when coming back down, he reminded them that he

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wasn't asking for their permission and could do as he
very well pleased with his own plane. Even the black
and moonless sky that night was no deterrent to him.
After all, he considered, he was stationed his girlfriend, Felicity
Granger on the airstrip of the flashlight, and he insisted
this would be enough light to provide him with a
visual reference. What could go wrong. It was nine point

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thirty pm when the couple headed for the airstrip. Hotel
guest named David Howett was there that night and witnessed
what he would later describe as a perfect takeoff. He
said he hadn't detected any signs of a malfunction or
other problems. Felicity waited for approximately half an hour before
returning inside and telling the hotel staff that Peter had

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not returned.

Speaker 1 (02:02:50):
Sleet was now falling.

Speaker 2 (02:02:51):
Heavily, which made visibility extremely poor, especially for flying in
a small plane. Hotel staff called in the local police.
When the authorities arrived on the scene, they inspected the
airfield for any signs of trouble that could account for
the disappearance. They found nothing unusual. However, the presuming the
flight path also failed to give them any hand of

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a problem. Due to the inclement weather, which was only
getting worse for the second Before they could even start
an official search for Peter, Gibbs, a decision was made
to call off that search for the rest of the night.
The very next morning, Christmas Day of nineteen seventy five,
a full scale investigation was launched into what could have
possibly happened to Peter Gibbs after he made his completely

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flawless takeoff from the airstrip the night before. He still
hadn't returned. While RAF and Navy Air Service helicopters scoured
the waters with sonar, hundreds of volunteers searched virtually the
entire island on foot. Neither Peter Gibbs nor the aircraft
could be found. For the next four months, speculation was

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rife as to his true fate. Confusion and mystery ended
the fallow in April, when local shepherd Donald McKinnon replaced
one question with several more. On a hill about a
mile from the Glen Forest Hotel, he discovered the fully
clothed body of Peter Gibbs. It was located about four
hundred feet from the base of the hill. He was

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in full view of anyone who might have ventured onto
the hill. This was really puzzling, as the hill was
part of the first search and many searches thereafter, and
nobody had obviously come across this body or any scrap
of evidence there before. The only injury to the body
was a minor cut on one of his legs. Keep
in mind, too, that this hill where his body was

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eventually found was a place where shepherds roamed daily, and
nobody had seen him up there until this point. There
was also another question about how Peter Gibbs could have
ended up where he did. If we are to assume
that the plane did crash into the sea, he would
have had to swim to shore, climb up a sheer

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cliff base across the road that led to the hotel,
then had a quarter of a mile uphill, only to
lie down and suffer the effects of exposure. And as
improbable as all that sounds, there was no trace of
seawater or marine microorganisms found on his skin or his clothes.
Some people even speculated that Peter Gibbs left the aircraft

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in flight somehow. Because his body showed no signs of
major trauma. They believed that he may have bailed out
on his own accord for some reason. Perhaps they speculated
the plane developed a fault during the flight. However, there
was no signs of a parachute anywhere near the body.
If he did parachute out of the cessna, then what

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became of the parachute. It doesn't seem reasonable that he
would go out of his way to conceal a parachute
and then return to the hill to lie.

Speaker 1 (02:05:48):
Down and die.

Speaker 2 (02:05:50):
Plus, a parachute was never found anywhere near the area all.

Speaker 1 (02:05:54):
This took place.

Speaker 2 (02:05:56):
Also, why hadn't he sought help or at the very
least found his girlfriend, lizdie Granger, who was waiting there
for him and most likely very nervous and worried about him,
to tell her he was safe and give some kind
of explanation. None of this made any kind of sense,
and the investigators were getting no further in finding any
clues or answers to.

Speaker 1 (02:06:16):
All those questions.

Speaker 2 (02:06:19):
One of the main questions on everyone else's mind, though,
was what happened to the aircraft itself? That was assumed
that the session was now at the bottom of the
ocean somewhere. Was this really very likely, considering the lack
of a parachute and also there having been no evidence
on or near him that Peter had even.

Speaker 1 (02:06:36):
Been in the sea.

Speaker 2 (02:06:38):
Eleven years later, in September nineteen eighty six, hopes were
risen that at least the play would be found when
a pair of brothers named Richard and John Greeb were
out clamfishing. They came forward and stated that they found
a small red and white plane about one hundred feet
down on a seabed a kilometer or so off the
coast of Open According to the brothers, it had the

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registration number gash AVTN, and as best as they could tell,
the cockpit was empty. Both insisted that the wings had
been sheared off and the condition of the plane was severe.
A hole was found in the windshield and one of
the wheels had been ripped from its housing. The engine
was found a short distance from the fuselage. The entire

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scene strongly indicated that this crash had been a very
violent one. Both doors of the cockpit were apparently locked
from the inside, though the only way out was ya
the hole in the windscreen. When salvage teams learned of
this discovery, they set out to retrieve the plane. Unfortunately,
they were unable to find it. The only evidence that

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the brothers had indeed found it at all were some
blurry photos. However, none of these showed the registration number.

Speaker 1 (02:07:50):
Now, there have been.

Speaker 2 (02:07:51):
Many theories over the years as to what could it
possibly happened to Peter Gibbs that fateful Christmas Eve night.
One idea was that Peter was actually murdered. This theory
suggested that his killer somehow managed to conceal him or
herself on board the plane without anyone Peter Gibbs included
knowing about it, either during or shortly after this textbook

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perfect takeoff, the killer struck. Having done the deed, the
killer then faced the problem of disposing of the body.
The obvious solution simply opened the door and let gravity
take care of it somehow, though the perpetrator would have
had to accomplish this without causing any additional harm to
the corpse, not very likely.

Speaker 1 (02:08:34):
It was also highly unlikely because.

Speaker 2 (02:08:35):
The area where the body was found was highly traveled by.

Speaker 1 (02:08:38):
The locals in the area.

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
There were also the aforementioned shepherds who roamed and traversed
that very hill every single day. It just is impossible
that all these people just happened to miss a corpse
like on the hill every single day for four months.
Going back to the theory of the killer, assuming for
just a moment that he or she actually did a
compli which all the above mentioned impossibilities, they would have

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had to have had to abandon and dispose of the
aircraft itself. If both doors were locked from the inside,
as alleged with the Green Brothers and is seen on
the aircraft photos no serial number on it. Think about
that the doors were both locked from the inside, So
did the killer or killers just hang tight, hope for

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the best, and remain locked inside of the assessment while
it crashed into the sea and again crash which appears
to have been very violent. Not a very reasonable theory
at all. While many theories abound in this case, there
is only one which most people think is even actually
feasible if you take into kate all the evidence were

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covered to back any theory at all up, which wasn't
much to begin with. This theory says that Peter gives
lost sight of the airfield and carried out his stated
plan in such an event, which was to fly as
low and slow as possible and jump out while waiting
for police to arrive. His girlfriend, Lisdey Granger, mentioned that

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just before taking off, Peter had told her that if
everything went wrong, he would throttle right back.

Speaker 1 (02:10:11):
And jump to safety.

Speaker 2 (02:10:13):
Okay, from the moment Peter Gibbs decided to indulge himself
and take as Cessin out on a whim that night,
despite the protest of at least a dozen Well Meeting
hotel employees. There have been so many questions and so
much mystery surrounding the situation. Even before he took off,
there were reports of a second set of lights on
the airfield. Lizdy swore that she was alone during the takeoff,

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and also, even though it was described as textbook perfect,
the takeoff itself seemed to take longer than was necessary
to Peter Gibbs had been distracted or busy with something.
Another aspect of this whole incident that cannot be readily
explained is the condition of his body. It was in
remarkably good condition, no signs of decomposition or animal interference,

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but it was confirmed that he had died all the
night he disappeared. Everything that is known or assumed about
the Great Muel Air Mystery defines all attempts at explanation.
Even now, some forty years later, there are questions upon
questions upon questions, and none with any real answers. How
did Peter gibbs corpse end up on a much used

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hill four months after disappearing with no signs of decomposition
or animal predation. Was it his plane that was found
by the brothers and if it was, then how did
he survive such a violent impact with barely a scratch.
Where would his corpse have been during the first few
months of that year. In twenty thirteen, the Royal Navy

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admitted to the discovery of a downed aircraft in the
sea off O Ben, supporting the brother's earlier claims. However,
this wreckage was estimated to be largely intact. Either the
brothers were mistaken or Peter gibbs plane is still somewhere
waiting to be discovered in the deep. We may never
know the answers to the mystery surrounding the last fight

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of Peter Gibbs, and as we said, theories abound, only
none seemed to tie up even multiple details, let alone
every single one. So much would have needed to have
gone exactly wrong for Peter Gibbs to have ended up
the way he did. Many questions remain about the body
as well. Where on Earth could it have been for
the first four months or so that Peter was missing.

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It was definitely not on that hill, according to the locals.
It had to have been somewhere. There are many very
strange theories out there, ranging from a UFO encounter to
an actual and full blown alien abduction, but again, none
of this could possibly be verified.

Speaker 1 (02:12:40):
Even if he were to believe it.

Speaker 2 (02:12:43):
The killer theory doesn't hold much water either, despite many
people being said to have an AXTA grind with Peter Gibbs.

Speaker 1 (02:12:48):
Himself at that point in his life.

Speaker 2 (02:12:51):
Nowadays two, with all these fresh eyes looking into the investigation,
some can't help but be reminded of the young athletic
and talent college students missing and ending up bound in
nearby water sources. These young men are missing for say
ninety days, but they've only been in the water for
thirty or deceased for forty. What do you think could

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have happened to Peter Gibbs on Christmas Eve of nineteen
seventy five. Do you think there's a UFO connection or
some sort of connection to the missing phenomenon?

Speaker 1 (02:13:21):
Or perhaps you subscribe.

Speaker 2 (02:13:22):
To the killer or killers lying in wait theory, or
was it something else altogether? Hello friends, and welcome to
another episode. Today, we're going a little bit deeper into
the world of the unknown. We'll be discussing the entity
known as the Black Flash that terrorized Provincetown, Massachusetts, in

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the late nineteen thirties until nineteen forty. According to legends,
the Black Flash first appeared in the fall of nineteen
thirty eight, when children in Provincetown reported a sinister figure
working in the dunes or hiding behind trees. They described
the entity as being about eight feet tall and dressed
all in black. He wore a long black cape and

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black hood that covered his head. Some children also said
that he had long silver ears and flaming eyes. At first,
the adults in town just dismissed these accounts of stories
from kids with overly active imaginations, but that changed when
an adult woman named Maria Costa encountered the Black Flash
in October. She was walking by the town hall when

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the Black Flash jumped out from behind the bushes and
started to chase her. She stated that the Black Flash
made a strange buzzing noise, like a giant insect. Maria
was terrified and ran into a nearby coffee shop, where
she hysterically explained what happened. Several customers ran outside but
couldn't find a trace of the black flash. He had

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simply vanished. Other people also reported seeing the black Flash
that fall. One teenage boy ran to the police station
after the creature jumped out in him on his way
home from the library. The boy said that the creature
was chasing him and it spit blue flames at him
all along. He was just within arm's reach. He goes

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on to say that the creature could have grabbed him,
but it seemed it only wanted to torment him. The
boy said he thought the creature was trying to scare
him to death. According to reports, the black Flash had
the ability to leap over tall fences and was even
seen levitating. Local rancher Charles Farley saw the creature lurking

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in his backyard. Charles fired a shotgun at it, and
the black Flash just made a buzzing and clicking noise,
and then was seen jumping over a nearby fence that
bordered the property and led back into the woods and
vanished from sight. A few days later, the police were
called and told that the black Flash was in a
school playground which was surrounded by a fence. Four officers

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entered the yard with flashlights and pistols drawn. They got
a good look at the black Flash, and one officer
swore his face was really just a silver painted mask.
They told the Flash to surrender or they had fire,
but the Flash just made a buzzing sound and jumped
over the ten foot fence that surrounded the school. Then
he once again simply vanished before their eyes. The Black

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Flash terrorized province Down and Hole for about seven years.
The last time the black Flash appeared was in December
of nineteen forty five. Four children from the Gerannard family
were playing in their yard on Standys Street when they
saw the flash creeping toward them through the fog. They
ran into their house terrified. Their parents weren't home and

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they didn't know what to do. They could hear the
flash turning the doorknobs of the house trying to get in.
The youngest children hid behind chairs, but the oldest boy
builled a bucket with hot water and ran up to
the second floor. He could see the flash outside right
below him. He opened the window and dumped the bucket
of water on the flash's head. The flash let out

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a startled gasp and then slunk off like a wet cat,
and that was the last time the Black Flash was
ever seen in Provincetown. Now, all these stories may sound
like an urban legend, but there is evidence that something
really did occur. On October twenty sixth, nineteen thirty nine,
the Provincetown Advocate printed a front page article titled Fall

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brings out the Black Flash. Hard winter certain as cabin
fever stories start. To quote from the article here, it
is only October, and the Black Flash has been prowling,
scaring kids so that they won't go out nights and
won't go to bed, grabbing women jumping over ten foot
edges with no trouble at all. In another article, at

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least on November ninth, nineteen forty, the paper ran a
short follow up piece titled Chief denies current rumors. Chief
of Police Anthony P. Tarbor's This Morning absolutely denied the
rumors current that the so called BlackFlash had been captured.
The chief stated that, as far as I'm concerned, the
BlackFlash is dead and gone. Those are the only two

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articles available that mention the Black Flash. However, there are
more accounts have been written about and documented. In the
early nineteen eighties, The writer Robert Elis Cahill visited Prominencetown
and interviewed many locals about the BlackFlash. Locals said that
there were several theories about who or what the phantom was.

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Some locals were convinced that the BlackFlash are some supernatural
or paranormal in origin, while others thought he might be
teenager John Williams, who was quite fast and a weightlifter.
But although John Williams was athletic enough to be the BlackFlash,
he was a sailor and often at sea when the
Flash appeared. Francis Marshall, a retired Provincetown police officer, told

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k Hill that the Black Flash was actually four men
who terrorized the town as a hoax. Marshall refused to
divulge their names, but said the two of them were
already deceased by the time he spoke to Kao. So
was the Black Flash really just a short lived hoax?
Their interesting parallels between the Flash and spring Hill Jack,

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a legendary monster from England. Spring Hill Jack was first
seen in London in eighteen thirty seven. The last sighting
was in nineteen oh four. Like the Black Flash, spring
Hill Jack was described as a tall human figure dressed
in black, often with a black hood on its head.
Some witnesses said he had fiery red eyes, and others

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said he could spit out blue fire. He was called
spring hil Jack because he could jump so high people
thought he had springs in his shoes. This is very,
very similar to the Black Flash if you believe in
the supernatural. Were they the same entity or were people
just telling similar stories. It's been eighty years since the

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last sighting of the Black Flash, and the majority of
witnesses are now deceased, so I guess we will never
know the truth of who or what the BlackFlash was.
With that said, if he happened to be in Provincetown,
be sure to keep your eyes open for the Black Flash,
because he may just be back and.

Speaker 1 (02:20:31):
Waiting for you.

Speaker 2 (02:20:34):
The cas To Ghost yacht mystery. On April twentieth, two
thousand and seven, a white Catmran was found drifting eighty
eight nautical miles or one hundred and sixty three kilometers
off the northeastern coast of Australia. Like the famous story
of the Mary Celeste, the crew of the Cast two
had mysteriously vanished without a trace, starting an enduring mystery

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known as the ghost Ship of Australia.

Speaker 1 (02:21:00):
Search and Rescue.

Speaker 2 (02:21:01):
Found the boat eerie upon entering it. An inquest blamed
misadventure and bad luck by the crew, but what really
happened is a question that will never be fully answered,
as fourteen years on and the crew's bodies remained missing now.
The start of the cast too voyage from Airly Beach
was normal. The cast two crew consisted of Captain Derrick

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dez Charles Batten fifty six and James Alfred Tunstead sixty nine,
as well as Peter John Tounstead sixty three. All three
retired men lived in Perth in Western Australia. They cast
off from Airly Beach and Queensland, Australia on Sunday, April fifteenth,
two thousand and seven, and were heading for Townsville on
their way to Perth.

Speaker 1 (02:21:43):
It was an eight week voyage.

Speaker 2 (02:21:45):
Townsville is around two hundred and seventy kilometers to the
north of Airly and the Great Barrier Reef lies.

Speaker 1 (02:21:49):
Off its coast.

Speaker 2 (02:21:51):
They previously left Shoot Harbor just to the east and
ended up in Airly Because they had a GPS issue.
Baton had bought the cast two in two thousand six
for eighty thousand dollars and sailed it a couple of
times since then. After taking a sailing course prior to
the latest voyage, he took horses in coastal navigation, radio
and a first aid course. The Tunstans were not nautical

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novices either, since they sailed together from the time they
were eighteen years old and even worked in the radio
rooms of the Volunteer Sea Rescue, but they were inexperience
on larger vessels. The last known contact of the family
members with any of the crew was made one and
a half hours after it left port, when one crew
member was contacted by his wife. Graham Douglas, the boat's

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previous owner, had warned the men not to leave the
whit Sunday area because they did not seem to have
enough experience.

Speaker 1 (02:22:42):
He said.

Speaker 2 (02:22:42):
The men appeared nervous about the trip, but anxious to
get underway since the original start date had been postponed
because of bad weather and the fact that they had
trouble understanding the vessel's Global positioning system. He was quoted
as saying, I said, if you're not ready, don't go
now Here's where the mystery stodarts. The first indication that
there was a problem came on Wednesday, April eighteenth, two

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thousand and seven, when a helicopter reported spotting the cash
To adrift in the vicinity of the Great Barrier Reef.
On April twentieth, maritime authorities caught up with the boat
and boarded it. Strangely, no one was on board the vessel.
John Hall, Queensland's Emergency Management Office QEMO, said what they
found was a bit strange and that everything was normal.

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There was just no sign of the crew. The QEMO
revealed that the boat was in serviceable condition and was
laid out as if the crew were still on board.
Food and cutlery were set out on the table, a
laptop computer was set up and turned on, and the
engine was still running. Officials also confirmed that the boat's
emergency systems, including its radio and GPS, were fully functional,

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and that it still had a full complement of life jackets.
There was also a small boat still hoisted on the
start of the catamaran and the anchor was up. The
only signs that were out of the ordinary, other than
the disappearance of the crew, of course, was that the
main sail had been badly shredded, and that there was
no life draft on board. It is unknown, however, whether

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there ever was one on board. Rescue officer Corey Benson
said that he found an eerie scene when he was
winched down from a helicopter to search the strickn vessel.
He saw the discarded coffee cup in newspapers and found
knives strewn on the floor. My biggest fearit was being
attacked by somebody who did not want me on the boat.

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I was one hundred and sixty kilometers out to see
with no backup. I didn't know if someone was going
to burst through a cupboard and go at me with
a knife. I saw the knives on the ground, but
no blood and thought, what the Then we began the
search for the cash to crew. Search and rescue efforts
began on April eighteenth, with boats and a Navy aircraft

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with infrared capability looking in the vicinity of the locations
identified in the video and data from the GPS system.
At the same time, Bowen Military Rescue launched a coastal
and island search. The next day, a full scale search
and rescue effort was launched involving volunteer rescue units from
several towns, as well as the Townsville's coast Guard, two

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rescue helicopters, nine airplanes and two commercial vessels. Doctor Paul Luckin,
a survival time expert, was consulted. He concluded that it
was unlikely that the men were still alive if they
were still in the water, as they had probably gone
overboard three to four days earlier. The team still had hope, however,
that the men could have reached land, and continued searching

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until four pm on April twenty first, when the air
and sea search was called off. Another coastline search was
launched on Monday, April twenty third, after some new information
had come in, but that search proofd fruitless and was
called off on April twenty fifth. So now the investigations
into the Cash Too mystery began in earnest On February twentieth,

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cast who was towed into Townsville Port for forensic examination,
and on the next day, Sergeant Bardell and Sergeant Malloy
of the Queensland Police searched the ship for signs of
foul play.

Speaker 1 (02:26:07):
No evidence for this was found.

Speaker 2 (02:26:08):
And they discovered that the cabin was neat and tidy,
apart from some magazines, a piece of newspaper, and a
wine cask which was lying on the floor. It was
later determined that these items ended up on the floor
while the ship was being towed ashore. In the sink
or a few butter knives, and on a bench in
the galley, a plastic sheath of fishing knives was found.

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They did not appear to have been used recently. Under
Desbatan's bed, in a sealed container, the investigators found a
firearm and some ammunition, none of which was used. In
a drawer, they found an additional single bullet of the
same caliber. After analyzing data from the catamaran's GPS system,
police deduced that it had been steered in a northeast

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direction into an area where rough seats were.

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Building on the day of the departure.

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Later in the afternoon, the GPS data showed it to
be adrift. The investigators also recovered a video recording filmed
by James Tunsten on April fifteenth at ten oh five am,
shortly before the men disappeared. The video showed ness Batten
was at the helm with a vessel under sail. The
sea was shopping and none of the men were wearing

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life jackets. Peter Tunstad was sitting on the aft stairway
of the boat fishing, and a long white rope can
be seen trailing behind the boat. The video showed the
coastline in the area and this helped investigator's pinpoint the
exact location of the ship. It was in the area
between Gumbrielle Island, Grassy Island and Arment Island. Next began

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the inquest into the cast iiO incident. Between August four
and seven, two thousand and eight, an inquest into the
men's disappearance began in the Townsville Corner's Court, led by
Queensland State Corner Michael Barnes. In total, twenty seven witnesses
were called to testify and one hundred and seven pieces
of evidence submitted. Jennifer Batton testified that her husband DEAs

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was an experience and careful yachtsmen, had been around boats
for twenty five years, and that he was acutely aware
of the need for safety. He had earned his recreational
skipper's ticket and a qualification in marine radio. Every summer
they traveled together to Rotten Nest Island on various motor boats,
although Cast two was their first sailboat. After they bought it,

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the couple took a six week sailing course and then
sailed Cast two around the win Sundays twice. Apart from
a minor problem with a propeller, the trips.

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Were without issue.

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Baton's wife also stated that the original plan was to
sail the Cast two to Freemantle as a couple, but
that Baton was worried that just two people aboard might
not be safe. He decided to take his neighbors brothers
Peter and James Tunstead with him instead. The trip was
planned over several months and discussed daily as they plotted
routes for.

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The help of a computer.

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Jennifer Batton continued, they allowed themselves six to eight weeks
to get back to Freemantle, but because Dez and Peter
were retired, it didn't really no matter how long they took.
They didn't want to sail at night for safety reasons,
and they planned the state reasonably close to the shore.
Although Batten was taking medications for high cholesterol, mild diabetes

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and had suffered a heart attack at age fifty.

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She believed that he was well enough and fit for
the journey.

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Also heard at the inquest was Graham Douglas, the previous
owner of the cast Too, but sold the boat to Baton.
He stated the boat was in good condition when it
was sold and that he had met the men on
the night before they set sail. He also helped the
men plan part of their route and was surprised to
see that, according to the police, the men had deviated
from their planned rout that was programmed into their GPS system.

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Gavin Holland, the skipper of a commercial fishing vessel called
the Jillian, testified that on April sixteenth, two thousand and seven,
while fishing on a reef off Bowing, he and his
crew saw a white yacht with a torn sail drifting
sideways between the reefs through a narrow passage and up
to three kilometers per hour in a north northeast direction
with the current. He came within fifty meters of the boat,

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but was unable to spot anyone on board. This was
two days before the coastguard spotted the cast who had
drifted off the coast of Townsville, and the day after
authorities believed the men went missing. Allan found it odd
that a sailboat was in an area noted for its
shallow water and rocks. He didn't attempt to contact the
boat or the authorities. However, Allan told the Inquest that

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it did not occur to him that the crew of
the yacht might be in distress, and went on to
say it did seem a bit strange to me, but
I just have this rule that no one goes near
another vessel. Sergeant Paul Molloy, one of the three forensic
police officers who examined the cast Too after she was
towed back to shore in April two thousand and seven,
told the Inquest that he did not believe the men
had met with foul play. He spent several hours combing

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the ship for signs of a struggle, but found no
evidence that anyone besides the three man crew of the
vessel had ever been on board.

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We came to the.

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Conclusion the boat itself was not a crime scene, he
told the Inquest. After questioning by Peter Tunstead's widow Francis,
as to why the police did not check for fingerprints,
Sergeant Malloy said his years of experience told him it
was not necessary. He says we were there for a
long time. We pulled the boat apart and found nothing untoward.
If there was any indication of foul play, we would

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have taken every measure we could to examine that boat.
And now the conclusions reached for the end quest state
Corner Barnes and Mints and his official report that he
cannot be so definitive about the circumstances under which the
deaths occurred. However, based on the eyewitness accounts, the video
found on board, and the state of the yacht in
which it was found, the report proposed the following scenario.

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On Sunday, April fifteenth, two thousand and seven, at ten
oh five am, the cast who was sailing in the
vicinity of George point up to that moment everything was
going as plan, but in the following hour their situation
changed dramatically. The men hauled in the white rope that
was trailing behind the boat and belded upon the foe deck,
possibly to dry next to the locker it was normally

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kept in For reasons unknown. James Tunstead then took off
his t shirt and glasses and placed them on the
back seat. The report says that since the men's fishing
lure was found entangled in the ship's port side rudder.
An obvious explanation would be that one of them tried
to free the lure and fell overboard while doing so
standing on the boat's sugar scoop, which is a platform

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at the back of the ship close to the water line.
While the boat is moving as perilous and falling in
as easy, but getting back on board from this predicament
is almost impossible. While the other men came to the
rescue of his brother, while Batten, still on board, started
the motor and realized he had to drop.

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The sails before he could go back for his friends.

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As he left the helm to drop the sails, a
deviation of the ship's course the wind direction could have
easily caused a jibe, swinging the boom across the deck
and knocking Baton overboard. This could even have happened before
Batten was able to untie and throw out the life
ring to his friends. A blue coffee mug found near
the life RNK may support this. Since the boat was

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traveling before wind at at a speed of fifteen kilometers
per hour, it would have been out of reach of
the men within seconds. The fort states from that point
the end would have been swift. None of them were
good swimmers, the seas were shoppy, the men would have
quickly become exhausted and sunk beneath the waves. The report
ruled out foul play and stage disappearance. Other explanations for

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the disappearance of the Cast two crew included the weather.
According to authorities in Tasle, the weather had been windy
and the sea had been rough between the time that
Cast two.

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Departed and was found drifting.

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This led authorities to speculate that the crew may have
experienced some form of sudden difficulty during rough weather and
gone overboard.

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However, one issue.

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With this theory is that the contents of the cabin,
including a table, did not seem to have been disrupted
in any way. Relatives of the missing men say that
the boat's condition makes this unlikely and point to discrepancies
such as the fact that the men's fishing line and
laundry were set out and that their life jackets were
still stowed, which indicates that they were not experiencing rough
weather at the time of their disappearance. Another theory was

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that the crew may have been kidnapped. Also noted was
the fact that the cast was found with it fenders out,
leading to speculation that the boat may have been docked
with another, as yet unknown vessel to which the crew
might have willingly or unwillingly transferred. Hope Hemming, niece of
boat owner Desbatten, said the fenders were out on their

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yacht and the only reason you ever put them out
is when another boat comes aside, or if you want
to come to rest against the wharf. The Townsville police
said small craft commonly leave their fenders out at all times,
making it impossible to draw any definitive conclusions from this fact.
Yet another theory faulty GPS. Volunteer radio operator Ivan ORMs

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recorded that Cast two radioed in at six forty five
pm on April fifteenth, giving its position as George Point.
This is the last known contact with the cast Io.
It should have taken them a short time to reach
George Point, and that's unclear what took them so long
to arrive there. One explanation is that they were just
fishing the whole day, but another explanation is that they

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had problems with their GPS, since they already tried to
set off on April fourteenth, but were forced to return
then because of the non functioning GPS, that incident was
because of a user error, and it was easily fixed.
So who set off early the next day? Yet another
theory points that they may have been lodged on a sandbar.

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Perhaps the catamaran became stuck on a sandbar near George Point,
where the boat's last radio message was made. When the
men jumped overboard to push it free, the gust of
wind blew and the boat drifted away, leaving them stranded.
This would explain why towels were left out on the deck.
Also a theory about a freak wave. Crew member may

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have been washed over by a freak wave and the
others were lost trying to rescue him. But then if
it were a freak wave, why the shredded sail. Some
other lesser theories include suggestions that the men staged their
own disappearance for insurance purposes, and one of the wilder
theories was that some kind of paranormal event had happened
to board their catamaran, or it had been attacked by

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a whale.

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Or giant squid.

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Maybe they were even abducted by extraterrestrials. Some unanswered questions
on the cast new mystery or as followers, why was
the jibsail shredded? The triangular sail called the jib, one
of the so called headsails on a modern boat, was
completely shredded when the catamaran was discovered.

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What happened to it?

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The coroner's report mentions, as he left the helm to
drop the sails, a deviation of the ship's course or
wind direction could have easily caused a job swinging the
boom across the deck and knocking bat and overboard. However,
such a i would not have caused the damage to
the jib that was found. One ton boulder called Wizard
Rock disappears in Prescott National Forest, then suddenly reappears. Forest

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officials in Arizona were mystified this past October when local
landmark Wizard Rock, a one ton boulder, suddenly vanished from
Prescott National Forest. The Wizard Rock, a distinctive black boulder
mark with striking lines of white quartz, as a well
known local landmark along State Route eighty nine in Prescott
National Forest near the center of Arizona. In addition to

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being an admired natural monument and stopping point for tourists,
The Wizard Rock is also a hefty formation, estimated to
wear around one ton, so park officials were shocked to
find it had gone missing. But it gets stranger. Two
weeks after the Wizard Rock disappeared, it mysteriously reappeared to
the exact spot and position, almost like it had never moved.
In addition, park services stated that there were no visible

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marks on the ground to suggest it was moved by
a large piece of equipment. I was of December twenty ninth, eighteen.
The disappearance and reappearance of the Wizard Rock remains a mystery.
Curious force snaps hundreds of trees in Washington near Olympic
National Park. An unexplained incident happened near the forces of
Olympic National Park on the shores of Washington State, and

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Park Service officials and scientists have been left baffled by
a lack of definitive explanations. In the early morning hours
of January twenty seventh, twenty eighteen, an extremely powerful force
of some kind knocked down over one hundred trees along
the north shore of Lake Quinot on Washington's Olympic Peninsula,
while high winds or some other meteorological phenomenon was immediately

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assumed to.

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Be the cause.

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Weather data show that nothing out of the meteorological ordinary occurred,
So then what exactly happened in the woods of Washington
that morning? To make matters even stranger? On Friday April fifth,
twenty nineteen twenty six, power poles came crashing down in
a cascade effect and took Willow, Washington. The terrifying incident
was recorded and shows one of the powers poles crashing

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through the roof of a passing vehicle. I would like
to stand here and tell you that I know what
caused it, but I don't. We've ruled things out, but
we've not ruled anything in. Seattle City Lights CEO Dever
Smith said. Seattle City Light says they ruled out lightning
and weathers causes, but as of today, this incident also
remains a mystery. Lost Boy Larry. On seven August nineteen

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seventy three, New Mexico Cbee radio operators heard the disturbing
pleas in Christ for help from a little.

Speaker 1 (02:39:30):
Boy by the name of Larry.

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He said he was trapped in a red and white
pickup truck with his father, who had died, possibly of
a heart attack. He said he and his father had
been rabbit hunting when his father collapsed on the steering wheel,
and as a result, the truck had flipped into a
ravine where the doors became jammed, making it unable to escape.
The messages were reported to the local authorities, and the
police launched the search for the little boy in the
foothills of New Mexico and near the Petroglyff National Monument.

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Despite the fact that some people thought it was a hoax,
the police took it seriously. It was definitely possible this
child was somewhere in the desert. However, Larry had no
idea where he was. He was struggling to answer questions
and became confused easily. Some people thought that perhaps he
had a head injury. He said his legs and knees
had been hurt in the crash. By the second day,

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Larry was not transmitting regularly. Other people joined in the
conversation on the CEB radios. Some of them were concerned
citizens who honestly wanted to help. Others were hecklers who
wanted to make fun of Larry. By the third day,
Larry's voice was growing weaker. He said that his father
had moved it all, and searchers were sure the man
must be dead. On the fourth day, Larry's voice was

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growing very faint and he said he knew he wasn't
going to survive. Shortly afterwards, Larry's transmissions faded away and
he was never heard from again. The signal was heard
in Arizona, California, and Wyoming. He was switching between channels
despered for somebody to help him. Those that spoke to
Larry are adamant that it was not a hoax because
of the emotion and terror in his voice, but others

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caught a hoax and suggested that after after forty years,
something surely would have been found. Strange structures in Santa
Fe National Forests. Forest Service officials and park rangers in
the Santa Fe National Forests have discovered numerous mysterious structures
which have them scrambling for explanations. The structures range in size,
but have all been constructed out of fallen trees and limbs,

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with some reaching over twenty feet tall and dozens of
feet in diameter. Whoever or whatever is building the structure
seems to be accelerating its efforts. Has more and more
have been found in recent weeks. The Forest Service has
no idea whose building them or why, but their response
so far has been to dismantle any that are found.
Bigfoot's not going to be happy. The destruction of these

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mystery structures is to mitigate the forest fire threat they create.
National Force spokesperson Julianne Overton says that whatever the structures
are for, they are dangerous for the park and its visitors.
They may have as many as a thousand pieces of
wood in them. The wood is seasoned and dry, and
the design is similar to a classic Kindling pyramid, but
on a much larger scale, and to exacerbate the obvious

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fire danger, people appear to be using fire rings inside
many of the structures. While some of the structures appear
to be a rudimentary teepee like shape which could be
used for shelter, others appear to be a solid cone
of wood. No one knows who is building these structures
or why, but many have suggisted they're the work of
a cult that uses the wooden frameworks for ritualistic purposes.

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Others claim that Bigfoot is responsible for the structures, saying
that some of these logs are so large and heavy,
that no human could possibly lift the malone or even
with the help of others, secret base for man eating
aliens being built in Tonto National Forest. The United States
Department of Agriculture has released a number of files about

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alleged alien and UFO activity on land manageable the US
Forest Service. The US Force Service. Data was obtained by
John Greenwald, founder of the Black Vault website, who obtains
and publishes formerly confidential official data on aliens and UFOs.
Records to the service Southwestern Regional office in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Detail of bizarre call from an alleged witness to the

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construction of an alien base in the Tonto National Forest
near Phoenix, Arizona. An email was sent by the Department
to all rangers on December thirty, twenty thirteen, detailing the
extraordinary encounter. The email said, David received a call this
morning at the front desk from a mail caller reporting
the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the

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Salt River Canyon past Binal Creek, upstream from Roosevelt Lake.
Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out of
the side of the cliffs. Miniature stealth planes and UFOs,
aliens and people working together at the site, and aliens
eating people. He found a severed head and claims to
have pictures of some of this stuff. Caller reported that

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he is sixty, not crazy, and doesn't do drugs. He
said he had already called the office at the lake,
but he didn't know if those people were turning the
other cheek, or maybe those people had been paid off.
The records do not detail if any action was taken
in response to the strange tip off, but the email added,
please let me know if there are any talking points
to be developed. I'm sure the Phoenix media will be

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all over this. PS. David and I aren't doing drugs either.
There are long standing claims by alien conspiracy theorists that
there are aliens living here on Earth and the government
knows about it, but it's kept top secret from the
public for fear of what would happen if they knew. Bizarrely,
this is not the first reference to their being a
secret military slash alien base in the Tonto National Forest.

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George A.

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Filer is a former US Air Force intelligence officer who
claims aliens and UFOs were actually aiding the US during
the Vietnam War. He is now the director of the
Eastern Section of the Mutual UFO Network or MUFAUN, based
in the United States, which is the world's largest organization
dedicated to UFO and alien investigation. In a series of
online reports known as Filer's Files, a man called Scott

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Hagmann spoke of a base being in the national forest
where scores of people have also gone missing. He wrote,
the most sure base that I've been able to follow
the craft towards is located in the Tonto National Forest.
I discovered this while camping in the Sierra on Chewilderness.
The UFOs kept flying down into the basin two minutes apart.
They flew low out of the southeast at about two

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thousand feet above the terrain. During the daytime, a tens
used the area for training. Refueling practice also occurs here
both day and night. These areas have also been plagued
with several unexplained disappearances that have occurred in Coachies County
over the last thirty years. Cars are abandoned with people's id,
money and keys left behind. Alleged bases include a huge

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underground when near Adults, New Mexico about two hundred and
fifty miles from the Tonto National Forest, a base for
species of aliens known as tall whites within the Nillis
Air Force Base in Nevada and also on Alien Slashed
military base at the top secret Area fifty one US
Air Force site, also in Nevada. So why would the
Air Force need such a large area of land because

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they gave some of it to aliens to build underground
bases so they don't accidentally encounter our person and kill them.

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Today, we'll be discussing the.

Speaker 2 (02:46:07):
Oddities, legends, and weird speculations regarding the Denver International Airport.
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this location. Now sit back, relax, strap on your ten
foil hat, and let's begin. Denver International Airport is the
largest airport by land masks in the United States and
as twice the size of Manhattan, occupying some thirty five thousand.

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Acres of land.

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It's located just twenty five miles away from downtown Denver,
and the airport opened way over budget and far behind
schedule in February of nineteen. Although the airport is larger
than Chicago O'Hare and Dallas Fort Worth Airports combined, most
of it is flat land that is unoccupied, with the
actual airport itself taking up very little of the thirty

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five thousand acres. Questions immediately came about as to why
this airport would cost almost five billion dollars to construct,
and why it was even needed in the first place.
After all, Stapleton International Airport, which is much closer to
Denver itself, was fully functioning already and seemingly much more convenient.

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The justifications given were that the larger runways would cut
down on waight times coming in and out of the
new airport. Also, the more remote location made it so
that there wouldn't be as much noise disturbance in residential
areas from planes coming.

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And going daily.

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Likewise, the remote location was considered safer than a residential
area in terms of a crash during takeoffer landing. Now,
those in charge of the airport seem to actually purposely
fuel these strange rumors, as they never officially deny any
of the wild claims, not even publicly. Our first nefarist

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rumor coming from DIA, talks of who or what was
actually behind the construction. Many believe it was directed by
the nWo or New World Order. Those who study such
things point to the dedication marker which credits the New
World Airport Commission for building the airport. If you're thinking

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this is merely coincidence, think again, as even the airport's
website fully admits that this organization doesn't actually exist. There
are also many strange markings all over the floors of
the airport which seem to some to also be connected
to the nWo. These markings are said by some to

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represent a new strain of hepatitis which will be used
in biological warfare to get the world's population under control.
This being so the New World Order can microchip whoever's
allowed to live. That way, the remaining citizens can be
monitored in an Orwellian fashion, therefore ensuring the world never
again becomes overpopulated, as well as also ensuring the most

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powerful members of society survive the next contrivance That has
many of those with esoteric knowledge thinking there's something villainous
going on at this most esthetically pleasing airport as part
of the airport's forty piece art exhibit. One of these
is the Mustang statue aka the Big Blue Horse aka Blucifer.

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This thirty foot tall fiberglass sculpture with its glowing red eyes,
is said to represent one of the four horsemen of
the apocalypse. Is it merely a coincidence that the artist
who created the statue was killed two years prior to
finishing it when a piece fell off and severed an
artery in his leg. Despite this malevolent Mustang's bad reputation,

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it continues to keep watch over all who come and
go from Denver International Airport. Rumors also abound regarding all
the extra and seemingly unnecessary space at the airport were
the most ominous one stemming not from the time capsule
buried on the property, which definitely has symbols of the
Freemasons carved into it, with the Freemasons allegedly being linked

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to the Bavarian Illuminati, a part of the nWo, but
of the exorbitantly expensive however, never actually working in since
abandoned baggage claim area, It's rumored to actually be a
clever cover up for the above ground entrance to the
supposed secret tunnels and bunkers which are said to exist below.

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Denver International.

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To point to the bunkers as being in exchange for
the Illuminati bestowing the extra billions of dollars needed when
the airport went over budget during construction. These tunnels are
allegedly an underground layer for the Freemasons or the Illuminati.
Some speculate that when many of the original buildings meant
for the airport were not built properly, at least five

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in total, instead of destroying them, the Freemasons took them
over and just built buildings on top of them, thus
giving them their own bunkers to hide in comfortably and safely.
When the aforementioned hepatitis outbreak, kids and the entire world
population is at risk for certain and sudden death, the
bunkers contained in these underground tunnels will be used to

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house the world's most to lead and well to do,
leaving the rest of us to fend for ourselves.

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During a biological war.

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Now it is a fact that these buildings do exist,
and also they were just built.

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Over and not demolished.

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There's yet another wild conjecture about those who constructed these
underground bunkers. It said some of the secret underground tunnels
lead directly to the North American Aerospace Defense Command NORD,
which is located only about one hundred miles south of
the airport in Colorado Springs. And who would find this
more useful than the evil and alien lizard people. Yes,

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some claim these lizard people secretly run the world, control
the news media, and even take over the bodies of
our most beloved and most loathed celebrities. These bunkers and
tunnels would surely make it easier to carry out their
sinister plots against humans in secret, eventually taking over the
entire world and the bodies of the world's most elite,

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therefore eliminating, some speculate, by eating the entire human race.
Our final look into a few of the many strange
notions surrounding the Denver International Airport is the artwork and
how it points to the apocalypse in the end of
the world. The first mural depicts, albeit in the very
bright and dazzling colors, a dead girl lying in a

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coffin horrific scenes of trees, burning, animals in glass cages,
and crying children dispersing in all directions, seemingly trying to
get away from the terrible destruction depicted in this giant mural.
Another showpiece that is seemingly a harbinger of the mass
chaos and destruction the Illuminati and nWo and possibly the

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Reptilians are to help bring about, depicts a gas mask
wearing soldier carrying a large firearm and sword breaking havoc
while a caravan of refugees Fleea's presence and narrowly escape
the carnage.

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He seems to be inflicting.

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There's also a depiction of a deceased child in someone's arms,
children sleeping right above the deadly soldier, and a small
child holding a teddy bear while hiding and trying to
stay out of this deathmonger's line of sight. This mural
goes on to convey the death of this same soldier
and many children celebrating above his body. Now, while many

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consider this widely inappropriate to be looking at when you're
about to board a plane, those who study the arcane
will tell you these murals serve a purpose, and that's
the warness of what's actually going on in and below
Denver International Airport. As inevitable to most common people, as
it may.

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Be, So what do you make of all this?

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Regardless of how they're interpreted, these oddities do absolutely exist
within what many considered be the strangest airport in the world. Today,
we're going to delve a little further into Saint Germain,
who you may remember from our episode about mysterious Mount
Shasta in northern California. It was on this mountain where

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occultist and author Guy Ballard claimed to have encountered Saint Germain,
who identified himself as an Ascended Master. After s his
meetings with the Ascended Master, Alard claims he was able
to channel Saint Germaine's wisdom and plans for implementing the
Seventh Golden Age, the i Am, which Germaine stated would

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bring about a new age of earthly perfection. But in
addition to being an Ascended Master, was Saint Germain also
a vampire. Vampire stories stretched back to France and the
illustrious seventeen hundreds, but it was a mysterious man who
charmed the courts of Europe. The Comte or Count Saint

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Germain was a very strange, extraordinary, enigmatical character. He was
a master of the piano and the violin, could converse
in six different languages, and his skills as a conversationalist
were unrivaled, a skill that is nowadays a lost art.
His wealth was unfathomable. He carried gyms around in his clothing,

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and no one knew how he came into such wealth.
No one knew anything about his family, where he came from,
or who he was. One of his greatest passions was alchemy,
and he was believed to have an extraordinary talent for
not aging. Maybe it was his vast knowledge of cosmetics
and herbs that kept him young. The philosopher Voltaire called

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him the man who knows everything and who never dies.
No one really knew his true age. He looked about
forty in all of his portraits and continued to appear
so for over half a century. Although he was charming
and engaging and graced the dinner tables of many dukes
and kings, no one had ever saw him eat anything.

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He would only sip his wine exquisitely and ramble on
about everything from history to chemistry. Fast forward to New Orleans, Louisiana,
and there appears a man by the name of Jacques
Saint Germain who fits every description of the count above,
around forty years of age, with heavy money bags, the
most fascinating of dinner guests, and still a complete mystery.

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He would throw lavish parties and invite the elite. Everyone
would sit and raptured in the conversation and food. But
curiously enough, this Jacques Saint Germain would never eat a morsel,
only sipped his wine. But one night he had a
lady stay a bit late out on his balcony at

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the corner of Ursline and Royal Streets. This Saint Germain
grabbed her and tried to bite her neck. She escaped
by falling from the balcony and then reported the incident
to the police. When the police came to investigate, Jacques
Saint Germain had vanished. They searched his apartment and found
tablecloths with large spotchous of blood on them. They searched

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the kitchen, where they found no sign of food or
evidence that food had ever been there. All they found
were bottles of wine, and after pouring themselves a glass
us drinking it and then spitting it out, they discovered
that it was not only wine in those bottles, but
wine mixed with human blood. To this day, this mysterious

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figure has his own occult, following from Theosophus to complete
weigh out their mystics. The Count was purported to die
in the year seventeen eighty four, although no one saw
his death, and some claimed to have seen him many
years after this date. Nevertheless, he disappeared from court life.

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In terms of murder, New Orleans rates among the highest.
Has always been a notorious place for missing persons. That is,
it is a place where people just disappear and no
one ever knows what happened to them. The blood of
the French, Spanish, Indian, African, Creole, and English all mixed
together here where the mosquito is not so picky, Nor

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perhaps are the creatures John and Wayne Carter were. They
seemed to be normal in every aspect, held normal labor
jobs down by the river, and lived on a street
in the French Quarter. It was the nineteen thirties during
the depression, and times were hard, so a man worked
all he could. One day, a girl was reported to

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have escaped from the Carter brother's apartment and run to
the authorities. Her wrists were cut, not enough to cause
immediate death, but enough to cause their blood to drain slowly.
Over the next several days, the policemen ran to the
Carter's third story apartment and found four other people tied
to chairs with their wrists sliced in the same fashion.

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Some had been there for many days. The story was
that these brothers had abducted these people in order to
drink their blood. At the end of every day, when
they came home from work, police also found about fourteen
dead bodies.

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The cops waited.

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For the brothers to return, and when they did, it
took seven or eight of them to hold down the
two average sized men. A few years later, when the
Carters were finally executed, their bodies were placed in a
New Orleans vault. Cemeteries in New Orleans are quite picturesque.
Not only are they more ornate than the rest of
the nations, but they inter many generations of one family

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inside one vault. Remains sift down into the bottom of
the vault, and when it's all rubble, a new body.

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Is slid inside.

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Many years after the Carter brother's death, when they were
replacing some other Carter in the family vault, they discovered
the vault was completely empty. No John or Wayne. They
were gone. To this day, many sightings have occurred in
the French quarter that matched the descriptions of these two brothers.
Almost exactly years later, an owner of their apartment saw

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two figures that matched their descriptions outside on the balcony
one night, whispering to each other. Both figures jumped off
the top of the third story balcony and took off running.
The rumor is that if a vampire drinks of your
blood seven knights in a row, then and only then,
can you become a vampire. Some of those found in

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the Carter brother's apartment had been there over seven days.
One warped fellow named Philippe went on to become a
notorious serial killer, and of course he would do more
than just kill his victims. He was believed to drink
all thirty two of his victim's blood. During the colonization
of New Orleans, France was having a hard time getting

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women to go over there. This was mostly due to
the fact that the men originally sent were thieves, murders,
and comports of every type in caste, not to mention
Louisiana snakes, alligators, mosquitoes, and deadly humidity. Eventually, some women
were sent. Some sources say there were nuns, while others
say there were prostitutes. But nevertheless a few of them

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made it. Many of them snuck off ship in Mobile,
Alabama when they poured it there and were told what
type of riff raft they would be tricked into marrying
if they stayed on board. These girls had the most
interesting luggage, shaped like little coffins. So to the New
Orleans men's dismay, all that arrived in New Orleans were

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three hundred of these coffin like suitcases. Some stories say
that they were empty, some say that they contained the undead.
These suitcases were reportedly stored in the attic of a
convent in the French Quarter, where they still sit behind
windows that are nil shut because they have a strange
habit of just opening by themselves. Years later, in nineteen

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seventy eight, two amateur reporters demanded that the convent's priests
led the men to see the coffins. The priests, of
course denied their entrance, so one night these two men
climbed over a wall with a recording equipment and set
up their workstation. The next morning, the reporter's equipment was
found stern about on the street outside, and there on

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the convent's front steps were found the almost decapitated bodies
of the us to men. Eighty percent of their blood
was gone. To this day, this unsolved crime baffled investigators.
They have it was the mysterious Saint Germain, a true
vampire whose bloodline apparently continues to this day in New

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Orleans and beyond. Let us know what you think of
the comments below. The mystery of the Tungosco event. In
nineteen oh eight, one of the most catastrophic, mind blowing
and mysterious cosmic impact catastrophes ever in the history of
civilization occurred in Siberia. However, this event wasn't widely known

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outside Russia until around the nineteen seventies. Even interested search
parties didn't learn about or even set foot on the
scene of disaster until nineteen twenty one. It didn't make
front page news in the papers when it happened because
of the extreme remoteness of that region of Siberia. Also
at play was the secretive, unsettled nature of Russia at

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the time, which of course only heightened the many conspiracy
theories surrounding it today. Even though there's much speculation and
controversy about what exactly the mysterious Tunguska explosion in nineteen
o eight was based on recordings at meteorological stations at
that time. The seismic activity measured five point zero on
the Richter scale, and according to devices worldwide, the air

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compression wave went twice around the entire planet, bouncing both times.
The blast itself, in whatever context it might have occurred,
is estimated to have been forty megatons, which is two
thousand times the force of the atomic bomb exploded over
Hiroshima in nineteen forty five. Even the asteroid impact that

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caused the Great Marriage of Crater in Arizona some fifty
thousand years ago is only estimated to have been equal
to three point five megatons. The mass of the object
has been guess at about one hundred thousand tons and
about sixty meters in diameter, but what exactly made up
this mass is unclear, although most agree it was probably

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a loose glove of rocks and eyes. Tungus tribesmen and
Russian fur traders happened to witness the event from a
relatively close range and reported seeing a bright, flaming object
coming in from the sky at an angle, and then
a giant bright blast. According to semi witness accounts, a
giant calm of flame and smoke arose in the air

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from the impact spot. The force of the first heat
wave and then the wind blast was enough to flatten
huts and knock people in livestock airborne while burning and
scorching them, and then back down to the ground again.
Forty miles from the blast center, at a town called Vanavara,
people were thrown into the air by the shockwave, according

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to reports there, it shattered windows and collapsed ceilings. Near
the town of Kans, three hundred and seventy miles from
the blast center, had to stop up on the Trans
Siberian Railway, betraying scream too halt when the engineer for
it would be thrown from its tracks by the violence.
Shaking as passengers rejolted from their seats by the movement,
The sound was deafening, and there were reports of some

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people close by actually becoming death from the event.

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A series of thunderclaps.

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Could be heard even five hundred miles away, and although
there were some serious injuries, todate, there been no records
of human deaths from the event, a black rain showered
the immediate area afterwards. The substance was probably condensation mixed
with dirt and debris sucked up into the swirling boar
text of the explosion and then sped out again. The

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event caused all kinds of climate changes around the planet.
Dust in the air at heights of from forty to
seventy kilometers caused high altitude noct lucence or night shining
clouds that illuminated much of the visible sky, mostly in
eastern Siberia and Middle Asia, even in London at the time,
there are newspaper accounts of a night sky solo uminus

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that one could.

Speaker 1 (03:07:01):
Read by it.

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Decreased visibility was reported worldwide, and in daytime the areas
with the most polluted atmosphere. It caused visible rings around
the Sun's glare. Also, obviously, brilliant sunsets were reported worldwide
for weeks. The site of the impact has been excavated
numerous times. Russian scientists landed Koulik was the first to

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brave the area in nineteen twenty one, but no evidence
of a huge meteorite has been found, although fragments of
meteorite like elements have been found in the area. More importantly,
no impact crater of any type has been located. The
trees in what is believed to be the impact sites
epicenter were stripped of their branches, but were oddly left

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standing amongst the miles of charred and flat ones surrounding
out from them, exactly like the effects of the bomb
dropped at Hiroshima, which was also an airborne explosion. In
the nineteen sixties, a research troope identified or smaller epicenters
within the large one. Each of the smaller appicenters has
its own radial tree fall pattern, and each presumably was

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caused by individual explosions during the chain of bursts. Most
agree that all this adds up to a meteorite that
was made up of blusely conjoined materials ice, rocks, etc.
That exploded upon reaching the Earth's atmosphere and obliterated into
zay and untraceable pieces. The force of this impact causing
the immense destruction, The size and magnitude of the blast destruction,

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and its location and timing are frightening to ponder if
it was a meteorite.

Speaker 1 (03:08:39):
Is the only.

Speaker 2 (03:08:39):
Event in the history of civilization where Earth has collided
with a truly large celestial object, although what occurred before
recorded civilization and are likely to in the far future
are for grabs. If the object had waited a mere
few hours, the rotation of the Earth would have placed
its i pac somewhere in Europe Boom, half a million
people wiped out in seconds who not have been able

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to see it coming at all. The historical ramifications of
such an epic catastrophe, not to mention the theological ones,
are incalculable. The most notable theories throughout the ages have
been the following the loose commet slash asteroid theory. This
one is pretty straightforward and simple. Antimatter it classifies as

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material with a reverse charge at the sub atomic level.
It is theorized to exist in very small quantities floating
around in our universe, and has actually been created by
scientists and laboratories. However, when antimatter meets up with real matter,
it explodes.

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The theory here is that.

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Some wayward drifting antimatter came in contact with Earth and
exploded when touching our thick lower atmosphere. An explosion of
this type would behave very similarly to the one created
by an atomic bomb. Many black hole. Some cosmologists theorize
that many black holes are created at the birth of
our universe and are just floating around aimlessly like little

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horripool ripples, not big enough to swallow the whole galaxies,
but powerful enough to wreak havoc with anything they come
in contact with. Apparently, some filled a Tunguska explosion could
have been caused by one of these many black holes
passing through our planet.

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Like a ghost.

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Blaming Nikola Tesla. Some theorized that everyone's blood nutty Professor
Nikola Tesla was testing out some sort of weird pantasmagorical
communication device or super scary energy weapon, or even a
death ray and made of big whoops. Tesla was known
to be working on a sort of wireless torpedo called

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Intel Automaton, which was a remote control boat he offered
to the US Navy for the purpose of carrying explosives
to naval targets. An airborne version of the tell Automaton
device was under development as well. Some also believed that
if there was a Tesla connection and it was a
weapon test, then he may have been pressured into it
and then kept quiet. Additionally, the theory that Tesla inadvertently caused

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a mass of explosion when he was trying to get
the attention of an explorer.

Speaker 1 (03:11:09):
For end in the area.

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Tesla was always fascinated with the concept of wireless propagation,
and he was known to work on projected wave energy
processes that could create microcosmic invisible particles of concentrated energy
that could be beamed great distances, often resulting in electric fireballs,
spherical plasmoids, or ball lightning. Why not use it to

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get someone's attention who's not near a telegraph service a
UFO inadvertently crashing into the Earth and its nuclear powered
engine exploding into smithereens. This is one of the more
popular theories among extraterrestrial believers. Some have claimed that the
remote location of the explosion was obviously an act of
humanitarian kindness on the part of the aliens, who realized

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they were going to crash and quickly guided their greening
craft into an area where there were almost the civilians. Today,
the Tunguska region remains a not too hospitable, desolate ay
of mesquite infested bogs and swamps nestled between sort of
beautiful hills to reach the center of the site. You're
dropped off by helicopter or you have to hike in.

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There have been a series of weird ongoing biological consequences
in the Tunguska region, presumably from the nineteen oh eight explosion.
Following the blast, there is accelerated growth of biomass in
the region of the epicenter, and this accelerated growth has
continued today. There also was an increase in the rate
of biological mutations, not only within the center, but along

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the trajectory. Creepy abnormalities in the rich blood factor of
local EVNC groups and native people to the area for
centuries have been found. Genetic variations in certain local ant
species are now being looked at, and genetic abnormalities in
the seeds and needle clusters of at least one species
of pine have been discovered there. This is the strange

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story of the Little Boy and his robot Grandma. On
October first, twenty ten, three and a half year old
John Doe, as he's being reported and his relatives were
camping by a popular fly fishing location near Mount Shasta.
Around six pm, the child's parents realized their son had

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suddenly gone missing. According to mister Doe, his youngster was
there one second and gone the next. They scoured the
area he had last been seen in complete panic, stricken horror.
After hours of feverishly searching, the little boys still had
not turned up. Now desperate, the distraught father decided to

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call local police deputies in the United States for service officers.
Rescue personnel calmed the forest well into the night, yet
there was no sign of the toddler. Five hours after
John had disappeared, authorities him laid down on the brush
directly next to trail that had been previously searched. He

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appeared to be in a dazed, semi conscious state. Mister
Missus Doe attributed this to exhaustion and were simply grateful
their little one returned physically unharmed. Medical staff gave full clance,
so the freshly reunited family were permitted to return home.
Everyone's lives quickly went back to normal, Yet only a

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few weeks later, the small boy would share a disturbing
tale about his terriforing ordeal. One day, Little John's grandmother, Kathy,
who he called Cappy, was playing with him. Suddenly, he
looked towards her and said that he didn't like the
other grandma Cappy. Confused, she asked him what exactly he meant.

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Little John explained that while he was lost in the woods,
he'd been taken deep inside a mountainside cave by woman
he thought was Grandma Cappy. She led him into a cool, dark,
spider infested room filled with motionless humanoid robots. Scattered across
the floor were dusty purses, guns, and other various types
of weapons. As John anxiously faced his grandmother, he noticed

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an eerie light radiating from her head. In this moment,
he realized she was not his real granny. Grandma Cappy
firmly and stroked the boy to defecate on a piece
of paper. When he refused, she became increasingly agitated and
repeatedly requested him to do so. Eventually, the grandma looked alike,

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succumb to frustration and moved on to a different topic. Allegedly,
she informed little John that he had been planted in
his mother's womb and was actually from outer space. Shortly
after this extraordinary account, she took the boy back outside
to a thicket and advised him to wait for help.
Upon hearing this disturbing story from her grandson, an outraged

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Grandma Kathy called her son and demanded to know what
he was laying her grandchildren to watch on television. Mister
Doelt lamented that he had heard an identical recollection only
a few days prior.

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Initially, the two chalked it up to an overactive imagination.

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Yet the more Grandma Kathy thought about it, the more
Little John's story perplexed her. What kind of TV show
would feature some of the ludicrous topics that the boy
was describing. Even more chilling was the idea that she
might have some kind of doppelganger assuming her identity in
order to abduct innocent victims. With those particular thoughts in mind,

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Kathy decided to share a haunting experience of her own.
Only a year before, she had gone on a camping
trip within close proximity toward Little John's ordeal. Occurred in
the morning, she awoke face down in the dirt. Somehow
she had been inexplicably removed from the sleeping bag within
her tent and transferred a short distance away. Upon rousing,

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she felt an intense pain at the base of her
at Two punctured wounds were present, and the surrounding skin
was red and inflame. Another friend who accompanied her on
the excursion, suffered a matching affliction. The pair originally attributed
these injuries to a possible spider bite. Both Kathy and
her travel companion became violently ill. In fact, she was

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so sick that she could not even muster the strength
to pack her things. Her mind raised as she desperately
tried to recall what happened mere hours ago. Only one
thing surfaced, glowing red eyes. While she was drifting into slumber,
she remembered seeing several creatures gazing through the darkness. At
the time, she assumed they were produced by a herd

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of deer. Following this traumatizing outing, Kathy felt completely drained
of her creativity and emotions. Several months would pass before
she felt like her old self again. Admittedly, Grandma Cappy
would have dismissed her episode had Little John not come
forward with his first hand encounter. Now, listeners to this

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channel are no doubt familiar with the legends of lore
pertaining to Mount Shasta that existed throughout the centuries.

Speaker 1 (03:18:09):
We've done a video about it.

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The indigenous peoples of the area chronicle the fallen race
of prehistoric giants that were said to inhabit the region.
Others claim beings known as Limerians use local caves as
entrances to an underground crystalline city called Telos. Some allege
a large energy vortex is present within the territory. In
modern times, there are many UFO and big Foot sightings

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reported each year. Though twenty six thousand visitors flocked through
the Severed Mountain from countries across the globe, there have
been an alarmingly high number of curious missing person cases
within this picturesque terrain by Little John Doe's incident seems unbelievable.
It's important to consider the odd history and happenings afflicting

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this area. An open mind may be the only thing
that will finally resolve to say old mystery. Well, folks,
there you have it. What do you think about this case?
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