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Speaker 1: Our world is full of the unexplainable, and if history

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Speaker 1: is an open book, all of these amazing tales right

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Speaker 1: there on display, just waiting for us to explore. Welcome

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Speaker 1: to the Cabinet of Curiosities. Ask anyone to give you

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Speaker 1: a list of their most sought after treasures, and they're

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Speaker 1: probably going to use a particular phrase about that list.

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Speaker 1: Everything on it would be a dream come true. And

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Speaker 1: that's the beauty of dreams, right. They have no limits,

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Speaker 1: no boundaries, and sadly, no probability of actually happening, which

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Speaker 1: is why the phrase dream come true has so much power.

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Speaker 1: Whenever someone wins the lottery or lands that promotion they

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Speaker 1: work so hard for. To everyone around them, their dreams

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Speaker 1: had just come true and it can't get much better

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Speaker 1: than that. But not every dream come true is received well.

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Speaker 1: Take for example, the story of John Godly, known to

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Speaker 1: the history books as Lord Kilbracken from Ireland because what

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Speaker 1: happened to him just after World War Two was both

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Speaker 1: amazing and, at least to him, more than a little disturbing.

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Speaker 1: In the late nineteen forties, John was a student in Oxford,

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Speaker 1: working hard and studying late into the nights, as most

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Speaker 1: students in his position would do. But when sleep did

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Speaker 1: finally come to John, it sometimes filled him with the

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Speaker 1: most unusual ideas. You see, despite the fact that John

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Speaker 1: wasn't a gambling man, his dreams were filled with visions

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Speaker 1: of horse races. One day, after a particularly vivid dream

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Speaker 1: featuring two separate races, John mentioned the details to a friend,

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Speaker 1: who raised his eyebrows in response. John had described two horses,

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Speaker 1: one named Bindle and the other named Giladdin, and then

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Speaker 1: showed him a newspaper which listed horses with those exact

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Speaker 1: John bet on both winners from his dream, despite the

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Speaker 1: dream horses had actually won their respective races. Most of

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Speaker 1: us would have been elated, and perhaps John was for

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Speaker 1: a while, But soon enough friends began to pester him

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Speaker 1: And it seems that all the attention began to wear

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Speaker 1: on John's patients, so instead of giving them tips, he

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Speaker 1: to get away from all of them, but John couldn't

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Speaker 1: get away from his dreams. Later, not too long after

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Speaker 1: settling in at his family's estates, he had another horse

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Speaker 1: race dream, this one featuring a winner named Tubermore. Upon waking,

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Speaker 1: John researched the horse name and found that there was

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Speaker 1: one three months later, another dream to another bet, this

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Speaker 1: time on a horse named Monumental. The real horse had

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Speaker 1: an eerily similar name and netted him another hefty payday,

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Speaker 1: and those big victories tempted John into more frequent betting.

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Speaker 1: But whether the dreams failed him or he began to

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Speaker 1: bet without their help, he soon realized how destructive his

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Speaker 1: gambling habit could become, and so he decided to quit,

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Speaker 1: and after that the dreams became much less frequent. A

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Speaker 1: whole decade went by with only a handful of dreams.

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Speaker 1: Most of them proved to be true, but every now

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Speaker 1: and then the dream would steer him wrong. John was

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Speaker 1: never fun after all. His last dream arrived in June

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Speaker 1: In this dream, the winner was a horse named What Man,

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Speaker 1: The closest he could find was a horse named Mr. Watt,

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Speaker 1: and after wrestling with his options, he decided to have

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Speaker 1: What proved to be a good call, and John took

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Speaker 1: dreams came to an end. John Godly never again dreamt

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Speaker 1: of horse racing, and as a result, his gambling career

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Speaker 1: from his experience with it all, it's that sometimes getting

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Speaker 1: a dangerous path, one full of a tenuous balance between

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Speaker 1: risk and reward. It seems the old adage might be

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Speaker 1: dream come true. Hill Beachy was a man with a dream, well,

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Speaker 1: considering the contents of his it was more of a

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Speaker 1: that moment, Hill knew exactly what his friend's killer looked like.

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Speaker 1: Of course, dreams aren't real, and that's exactly what Hill's

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Speaker 1: maybe already had. Lloyd McGruder was a good friend and

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Speaker 1: he'd be sad to see the man get hurt. The

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Speaker 1: trouble was, McGruder wasn't around to warn. Lloyd was the

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Speaker 1: owner of the general store in Lewiston, a small community

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Speaker 1: in what is now the state of Montana. Back in

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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty three, someone discovered gold about two hundred miles

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Speaker 1: prospectors and fortune seekers to town. Unknown to Hill Beachy,

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Speaker 1: Lloyd Magruder was already dead. It seems that he had

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Speaker 1: loaded up his wagons with just about every bit of

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Speaker 1: up shop for a few days in alder Gulch. When

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Speaker 1: he was finished, he headed home, wagons empty but pockets full.

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Speaker 1: Being in the right place at the right time had

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Speaker 1: of wandering strangers and literal gold diggers, that had a

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Speaker 1: Hill Beachy's fear for his friend's safety wasn't misplaced. It

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Speaker 1: was just unreasonable, considering the only information he had came

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Speaker 1: from a dream. But Hill's dream had been accurate, because

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Speaker 1: of early eighteen sixty five, he wasn't alone. A handful

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Speaker 1: and joining them on that journey was a group of

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Speaker 1: four strange men, Doc Howard, Chris Lowry, William Page and

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Speaker 1: see empty wagons. No, they saw opportunity as well as

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Speaker 1: They chose to stay the night at the Luna Hotel

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Speaker 1: Convinced that the dream was more than just a bit

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Speaker 1: where he found confirmation of his fears horses the men

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Speaker 1: The rest of the adventure is a bit of a journey,

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Speaker 1: have their stolen gold minted into coins. Hill Beachy actually

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Speaker 1: traveled there to help in their arrest, and after tricking

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Speaker 1: led to the location of Lloyd mcgruder's body, a body

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Speaker 1: On March three of eighteen sixty five, three of the

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Speaker 1: the adventure came to an end. Better yet, Mcgruder's widow, Maggie,

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Speaker 1: freshly minted gold coins that would be worth close to

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Speaker 1: likely that those men would have gotten away with murder,

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Speaker 1: and the disappearance of Lloyd McGruder would never have been solved.

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Speaker 1: Many criminals dream of the perfect crime, and they just

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Speaker 1: me Aaron Manky in partnership with how Stuff Works. I

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