Speaker 1: The gap year, the subject of much yearning and derision
Speaker 1: of internet memes and misty eyed and blinkered nostalgia of
Speaker 1: much heard refrains repeated by first year university students and
Speaker 1: boomers in offices, the best year of my life. I
Speaker 1: really found myself. I've never learned so much about the
Speaker 1: world so quickly. Where entire cities and even nations are
Speaker 1: reduced items ticked off a list. We did Peru, we
Speaker 1: did Kenya, we did Thailand. For what it's worth, I
Speaker 1: did Australia. The concept of a gap year where mostly white,
Speaker 1: middle and upper class young adults take a year or
Speaker 1: so to sometimes work, earn money, and go traveling, and
Speaker 1: was popularized in the nineteen sixties and seventies. The baby
Speaker 1: boomers had come of age amid war, nuclear armament, and
Speaker 1: a burgeoning free love movement, and longed to stretch their
Speaker 1: legs away from their great or silent parents. They momentarily
Speaker 1: shirked off the expectations placed on them medicine, law, engineering,
Speaker 1: and worked in cafes and bars instead, before collecting their
Speaker 1: hard earned money and taking to the seas and skies,
Speaker 1: volunteering in Ethiopia, interrailing across Europe trekking along what was
Speaker 1: known as the Hippie Trail through India, Pakistan and Nepal.
Speaker 1: These boomers became parents themselves to Gen X and millennials
Speaker 1: ubergat gen Z or, growing up in the shadow of
Speaker 1: successive financial crashes, televised terrorism, and an increasing climate crisis,
Speaker 1: all the while flicking through photos of their parents international
Speaker 1: heydays in hot places, mountains and markets, and wide open seas,
Speaker 1: far flung reaches of the world, a million miles away
Speaker 1: from exams and schedules and strict dinner times. Almost two
Speaker 1: thousand students took a gap year last year, seeking new sights,
Speaker 1: sounds and smells, looking for that undefinable something. Though it
Speaker 1: remains very much the preserve of those who tend to
Speaker 1: be from more financially secure backgrounds and is easy to ridicule,
Speaker 1: it's certainly no bad thing to want to see and
Speaker 1: experience more of the world, and it's no easier for
Speaker 1: the parents left behind. What can often be so aspirational
Speaker 1: for the young, freedom adventure uncertainty is often and naturally
Speaker 1: horror for the parent. They fit for their children's safety
Speaker 1: in these unknown places or ways. They worry about their
Speaker 1: health and happiness, and stress constantly that their children must
Speaker 1: be careful, and fret that careful still might not be enough.
Speaker 1: Even the parents who were in their day daring adventurers themselves,
Speaker 1: and even remain as such, even they wish sometimes that
Speaker 1: their children were not such adventurous spirits. They will think
Speaker 1: back to their own instances of youthful daring and perceived
Speaker 1: invincibility and say, do as I say, not as I do.
Speaker 1: They will stand at airports and train stations, at front
Speaker 1: doors on early mornings as taxi doors close and hands wave,
Speaker 1: feeling that awful fear that only a parent knows when
Speaker 1: a precious piece of themselves heads out into the wild
Speaker 1: wild west of the world. And they pray that nothing
Speaker 1: goes wrong, and if it does well, then they pray
Speaker 1: for answers, for hope, for closure. They pray not to
Speaker 1: be another statistic or cautionary tale. They pray that theirs
Speaker 1: will not be the kind of story that comes after
Speaker 1: these words. You're listening to Unexplained, and I'm Richard McLean Smith.
Speaker 1: It is March fourteenth, twenty fourteen. Two young women in
Speaker 1: Amosh fought in the Netherlands about thirty kilometers southwest of Amsterdam,
Speaker 1: have finished their degrees at the University of Utrecht and
Speaker 1: are preparing for the trip.
Speaker 2: Of a lifetime.
Speaker 1: They are Lizana Frone and Chris Kramer's and they are
Speaker 1: best friends. Lisianna is athletic born on September twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety one. She is six feet tall with ash
Speaker 1: blonde hair and dark, soulful eyes. She is a volleyball
Speaker 1: player and is known as a thoughtful, intelligent, and empathetic
Speaker 1: young woman. Despite her natural shyness, she has an adventurous spirit.
Speaker 1: She tries her hand at skydiving and is a keen
Speaker 1: walker in her native Netherlands. She loves to take photographs
Speaker 1: and is studying applied psychology. Chris, her friend and university's
Speaker 1: room mate, is in many ways her opposite. Born August ninth,
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety two, she is outgoing, spontaneous and outspoken, with vivid,
Speaker 1: strawberry blonde hair and bright blue eyes. She has just
Speaker 1: completed her studies in cultural social education, specializing in art,
Speaker 1: and has decided to continue with a postgraduate program in
Speaker 1: art history after their trip. She loves theater festivals and
Speaker 1: the red hot chili peppers. Chris and Lisana met while
Speaker 1: working part time jobs at the same cafe. Hoping to
Speaker 1: save enough money to go traveling, they decided to share
Speaker 1: a flat and ultimately travel together. They are twenty two
Speaker 1: and twenty one, respectively. They decide on Panama, a small
Speaker 1: tropical country immediately north of Columbia, A popular hotspot with tourists, expats,
Speaker 1: and retirees. Panama boasts beautiful landscapes, an entirely new pace
Speaker 1: of life, and the opportunity to learn Spanish and volunteer
Speaker 1: with charities. On March fifteenth, the parents accompany them to
Speaker 1: Skipple Airport, just outside of Amsterdam. They hug and kiss
Speaker 1: their daughters goodbye, clasping their faces and kissing them on
Speaker 1: the cheek. The two young women, Lousanna and Chris, wearing
Speaker 1: light jackets and scarves, laugh and smile and roll their
Speaker 1: eyes at each other, a little embarrassed by it all.
Speaker 1: Eventually they make their final exchanges, then pull their big
Speaker 1: rucksacks from the floor and hook them onto their backs.
Speaker 1: They give each other a look as if to say
Speaker 1: let's go. Then they turn one final time to their parents,
Speaker 1: no longer able to contain their excitement, and wave goodbye,
Speaker 1: and then they turn and head through security. Their parents
Speaker 1: stay to watch, even just to see the back of
Speaker 1: their heads as they disappear into the distance, until they
Speaker 1: can no longer see them anymore. Chris and Lizana's first
Speaker 1: stop is San Jose, Costa Rica. They stay there for
Speaker 1: a couple of days before moving on to Boccos del
Speaker 1: Toro in Panama, which they describe as beautiful and cozy.
Speaker 1: And it really is beautiful. There are houses built on
Speaker 1: stilts right out to sea. The colors are vivid and vibrant,
Speaker 1: as though it's a place of abundant saturation, the color
Speaker 1: dialed right up on the TV. The sea is duel bright,
Speaker 1: and the sky is clear. The lush plant life presents
Speaker 1: more shades of green than they ever thought possible. It's
Speaker 1: all taxis and buses, borders and boats, the staff of
Speaker 1: a gap year adventurer's dreams. They make friends, fine starfish
Speaker 1: on white sandy beaches, sun bathe under palm trees. They
Speaker 1: drink straight out of coco nuts. They talk and laugh
Speaker 1: all the time. They write in their diaries about all
Speaker 1: the delicious food they eat, the beautiful locations they visit,
Speaker 1: about the time they danced in the warm Panamanian rains
Speaker 1: and their slowly improving Spanish. They visit mangrove swamps and
Speaker 1: see sloths and dolphins in the wild. In Bocchus, staying
Speaker 1: at the Spanish school, meeting other young travelers, they revel
Speaker 1: in the veritable paradise of their new surroundings. For their parents,
Speaker 1: each message home, beer to WhatsApp, or precious Skype call
Speaker 1: brings a warm, reassuring feeling and smiles at the thought
Speaker 1: of their daughters so far away yet seeming so happy.
Speaker 1: But Chris and Lizana are not in Bocchus for long.
Speaker 1: After a couple of weeks, they move on to Bocchette
Speaker 1: in the Cherokee region, to continue with their Spanish lessons
Speaker 1: and to begin volunteering at a nursery school. On their
Speaker 1: last day before they leave, Chris takes a moment to
Speaker 1: write a quick line in her diary, the time we
Speaker 1: had in Boccas was really wonderful. We had a real
Speaker 1: holiday there. It felt like goodbye because we probably won't
Speaker 1: be coming back. On March twenty ninth, twenty fourteen, Lizanna
Speaker 1: and Chris take a small bus to Bocchette in western Panama.
Speaker 1: It too is a lush and ferdant place, a small
Speaker 1: town on the Caldera River. It's known as Little Switzerland
Speaker 1: because of its many is crossing streams and brooks, illuminating
Speaker 1: the area in crystal clear water and fertile green. The
Speaker 1: still active Baru volcano forty minutes away in riches the soil,
Speaker 1: contributing to the unique ecosystem of the surrounding Cherokee Highlands.
Speaker 1: It's no wonder the region is home to coffee plantations
Speaker 1: and so many unique species of plants and animals. They
Speaker 1: arrive eventually at Spanish by the River, an all inclusive
Speaker 1: language school and hostel. Here travelers can take language classes
Speaker 1: and get paired with host families, and also put in
Speaker 1: touch with schools and nurseries where they can volunteer. It's strange,
Speaker 1: after two weeks of independence and new friends in Bacchus
Speaker 1: del Toro to suddenly find themselves part of a family.
Speaker 1: Their hosts are friendly and used to foreign nationals with
Speaker 1: little Spanish, but all the same, those first couple of
Speaker 1: days in Boquetta are a difficult transition. It's the first
Speaker 1: time in all these weeks that they feel homesick. It
Speaker 1: soon passes and They're excited for their first day at Aura,
Speaker 1: the nursery they've been assigned as volunteers on March thirty. First,
Speaker 1: they arrive at Ara, but are given less than friendly welcome.
Speaker 1: The staff seem a little cold and claim not to
Speaker 1: recognize them. They say they weren't expecting anyone to start
Speaker 1: work that day. Lisano and Chris are brusquely informed that
Speaker 1: they should come back next week. The young women are throne.
Speaker 1: This had been planned months ago, they thought. Surprised and disappointed,
Speaker 1: they head back to Spanish by the River and chat
Speaker 1: to Maryoline, one of their coordinators. They spend the day
Speaker 1: languish in the sun, frustrated and a little anxious about
Speaker 1: the abrupt change in plans. They wait for Maya Line
Speaker 1: to find out if there is work for them elsewhere.
Speaker 1: The response is inconclusive, but Maya Line is hopeful that
Speaker 1: she can get them some work at another nursery called
Speaker 1: Cassa Esperanza. She promises she'll have confirmation by the end
Speaker 1: of the next day. Lisanna and Chris are glad to
Speaker 1: hear it. They're none too keen to return to Aura
Speaker 1: after the less than warm welcome they'd received, and after
Speaker 1: reading about the alternative project Cassa Esperanza. They've become enthused
Speaker 1: and decide that maybe it was all for the best anyway.
Speaker 1: They go for a massage to lift their spirits. They
Speaker 1: write messages to family and friends on WhatsApp and Facebook
Speaker 1: and research some possible walking tours for the weak ahead,
Speaker 1: and then head out for dinner. That night, Chris, pleasantly decompressed,
Speaker 1: signs off her diary with let's go with the Panamanian flow.
Speaker 1: Tomorrow will be a new day, a new month, and
Speaker 1: a chance for a brand new start. Since arriving in
Speaker 1: Central America, Lezanna and Chris were in daily contact with
Speaker 1: their parents, and Chris with her boyfriend Stefan.
Speaker 2: Two.
Speaker 1: At two pm Dutch time, eight am in Panama on Tuesday,
Speaker 1: April first, Stefan got a text from Chris. She was
Speaker 1: excited about the week ahead. They'd made lots of plans
Speaker 1: and she was looking forward to telling him all about it,
Speaker 1: But then there was nothing. When their pairs have not
Speaker 1: heard from them by Wednesday, they try texting them again,
Speaker 1: but they are met with only a thundering silence. They
Speaker 1: try to stay calm. Their daughters are, after all, having
Speaker 1: the time of their lives on the other side of
Speaker 1: the world. It isn't their priority to stay in touch.
Speaker 1: Not hearing from them is in some ways to be expected.
Speaker 1: Then late on the Wednesday night, Lizana's parents receive a
Speaker 1: call from the host family in Bockette. They tell them
Speaker 1: that their daughter and Chris did not come home the
Speaker 1: night before. The parents contact the agency that organize the
Speaker 1: trip and ask them to see if.
Speaker 2: They can get more information.
Speaker 1: The agency calls them back soon after with more troubling news.
Speaker 1: The girls didn't just fail to come home for the night.
Speaker 1: They haven't been seen or heard from from in over
Speaker 1: twenty four hours. By anyone, twenty four becomes forty eight,
Speaker 1: then seventy two. Within days, both sets of parents. Both
Speaker 1: sets of parents fly out to Panama to try and
Speaker 1: figure out for themselves what is going on. Knowing only
Speaker 1: one thing for certain, their daughters are missing, and not
Speaker 1: of their own volition. Bit by bit, alongside the police,
Speaker 1: they start to develop a picture of their daughter's last
Speaker 1: known whereabouts. On Tuesday, April first, the last time they
Speaker 1: were known to have been seen, Luzanna and Chris are
Speaker 1: thought to have had lunch with two Dutch men in town.
Speaker 2: These men were.
Speaker 1: Later questioned by the authorities. They said that the women
Speaker 1: told them that they'd supposedly spoken to a local guide,
Speaker 1: God Feliciano about taking a hike to the ill Pianista Trail.
Speaker 1: It's a popular walk among tourists, about four kilometers north
Speaker 1: of Bockheta. It's a fairly simple and clearly marked trail
Speaker 1: that takes you through the local cloud forests the unique
Speaker 1: microclimatic jungle of the Cherokee Highlands. It's about a four
Speaker 1: hour round trip and leads to El Mirador, or the Overlook,
Speaker 1: a stunning viewpoint with a three hundred and sixty degree
Speaker 1: panoramic of the mountainous rainforest. Most tourists walk up it,
Speaker 1: pose for a few photos, and then come straight back down.
Speaker 1: They do occasionally get lost, but they're almost always found
Speaker 1: by guides or locals returning to town, relieved, bitten and dehydrated,
Speaker 1: having been little but embarrassed by the jungle. It is
Speaker 1: a stunning landscape. The cord Piera de Talamanca, the mountain
Speaker 1: range that dominates the Highlands, stretching into Costa Rica. It's
Speaker 1: full of rare plants and the reaching fronds of vast
Speaker 1: mossy trees hows all manner of creatures, brightly colored hummingbirds
Speaker 1: as well as hawks and eagles and tiny pigmy owls.
Speaker 2: And that's just in the air.
Speaker 1: In the trees, one might find howler monkeys on the ground, cougars, jaguars,
Speaker 1: and ocelots. The jungle holds many dangers, and it's easy
Speaker 1: to just get plain lost. In the dry season from
Speaker 1: January to May, the dense jungle around the ill Pianista
Speaker 1: Trail is incredibly difficult to traverse. The winding, narrow trailsills
Speaker 1: and walls of trees and shrubs are almost solid. You
Speaker 1: need machetes to hack through it. Anyone straying off the
Speaker 1: path for whatever reason without the deep knowledge of the
Speaker 1: jungle held only by very experienced guides and indigenous inhabitants
Speaker 1: of the Talamanca such as the Ngabi people, would be
Speaker 1: in serious trouble. The Ngabe's territory today exists within Panama
Speaker 1: and Costa Rica in Central America. They mostly live within
Speaker 1: the Ingabe Bouglas Comarca, a comarca being a self governed
Speaker 1: indigenous region in the western Panamanian provinces of Cherokee, Verakuas
Speaker 1: and Boccas del Toro. They also have five indigenous territories
Speaker 1: in southwestern Costa Rica. They, like many indigenous groups, have
Speaker 1: faced persecution, dating at least as far far back as
Speaker 1: Christopher Columbus's sixteenth century attempt to colonize the area. There
Speaker 1: are famous stories of Ingabe leaders repelling Columbus and his
Speaker 1: men time and time again, but they were eventually pushed
Speaker 1: and kettled into the western mountains by the conquistadors, driven
Speaker 1: from their spread of land between the Pacific Ocean to
Speaker 1: the Caribbean Sea by the development of large banana plantations.
Speaker 1: As a result, they are some of the only people
Speaker 1: who contraversed the Cordillera de Talamanca safely, and are understandably
Speaker 1: wary of outsiders, particularly government authorities who spent many years
Speaker 1: denying them. A comarker of their own, the majority now
Speaker 1: live within its boundaries. In the rainy season from May
Speaker 1: to December. To be caught unprepared or unaware is to
Speaker 1: surrender entirely to the elements. The steep terrain and heavy
Speaker 1: rainfall flood the network of rivers, streams, and brooks, causing lethal,
Speaker 1: fast running river channels throughout the Cloud Forest. The air
Speaker 1: is hot and heavy as currents rise from the Pacific
Speaker 1: and deposit over some one hundred and thirty five inches
Speaker 1: of rain every year, and so the water levels rise,
Speaker 1: Narrow trails become mudshutes, fog Cloud's vision in the middle
Speaker 1: of the day, and the runoff Jettison's downhill through a
Speaker 1: myriad of sharply jagged and rocky ravines that are often
Speaker 1: obscured by the fauna of the landscape. Ill Pianista or
Speaker 1: the piano player, is so named because it climbs just so,
Speaker 1: step after step, up and up, like scales on a piano.
Speaker 1: At the top of the trail is the continental divide.
Speaker 1: This makes the point where the land's water divides, splitting
Speaker 1: inevitably into two. On the western side of the divide,
Speaker 1: the rushing aggregate of rivers flowed downhill into the Pacific Ocean.
Speaker 1: Those to the east gather together and eventually.
Speaker 2: Reached the Caribbean Sea.
Speaker 1: There are many tour and guide companies operating out of
Speaker 1: Boketa and the surrounding areas, offering a range of hikes,
Speaker 1: hot spring visits, and other experiences for adventure seekers. Feliciano
Speaker 1: is a guide whose lived and worked in Bokhetta his
Speaker 1: entire life. He offered Lisanna and Chris a full package tour,
Speaker 1: including a guided hike up Ilpianista and beyond to the
Speaker 1: nearby Continental Divide, and an overnight stop at its ranch
Speaker 1: in the jungle on the far side at the Cordillera
Speaker 1: de Talamanca. For reasons unknown, they put him off. According
Speaker 1: to Feliciano, who was also interviewed by the police, the
Speaker 1: women agreed to meet him the next day to undertake
Speaker 1: his tour, but they never showed up. At about ten
Speaker 1: am on the Tuesday, Nzanna and Chris supposedly took a
Speaker 1: taxi from their host family's house into Bocchetta. Some say
Speaker 1: they were then seen having brunch with the two dutchmen
Speaker 1: before heading off toward the il Pianista trail, the same
Speaker 1: trail that Feliciano said he'd agreed to take them on
Speaker 1: the following day. Perhaps they never intended to go with Feliciano.
Speaker 1: Maybe they simply didn't want to pay for a hike
Speaker 1: that many tourists manage alone. Perhaps they didn't want to
Speaker 1: go into the jungle with a stranger who suggested they
Speaker 1: stay at his ranch. Perhaps they'd heard some of the
Speaker 1: complaints that had been made against Feliciano over the years,
Speaker 1: allegations of inappropriate behavior around female clients, for example. Either
Speaker 1: way they decided to hike alone, the trail is clearly
Speaker 1: marked now.
Speaker 2: At its end is.
Speaker 1: Situated a huge sign which makes it clear that other
Speaker 1: trails leading off from the main one are not for
Speaker 1: tourists and not maintained by the National Park rangers. Often
Speaker 1: the sign is not necessary during the rainy season. The
Speaker 1: other trails boast thigh high mud and a dangerous twisting
Speaker 1: whose very nature would convince all but the most confident
Speaker 1: to stay away. But at the time in twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: there was no sign and the rains had not yet arrived.
Speaker 1: Some say they went straight to the trail and were
Speaker 1: accompanied by a zoo, the host's family dog. Over time,
Speaker 1: the details have become as dense and foggy as the
Speaker 1: jungle itself, overgrown with retellings and changed statements. The witness
Speaker 1: testimony we can verify is what the women were wearing
Speaker 1: on the day they disappeared, light clothing, vests and shorts.
Speaker 1: They carried only Loizana's small backpack with them, suggesting that
Speaker 1: whatever walk they were planning was not intended to be
Speaker 1: lengthy or arduous. Later that night, Ursull, meaning blue in English,
Speaker 1: appeared back at the host family's house without Losiana and Chris.
Speaker 1: The following morning, April second, Feliciano, the guide with whom
Speaker 1: they supposedly made an appointment with the day before, reported
Speaker 1: that they never arrived.
Speaker 2: To meet with him, and so the alarm was raised.
Speaker 1: Sena PROC, the country's national Civil Protection service, claim they
Speaker 1: began aerial searches on April third, two days after the
Speaker 1: young women were last seen alive. A ground search begins
Speaker 1: the day after, but local guides disagree. They claimed that
Speaker 1: they organized their own groups in those initial twenty four
Speaker 1: to forty eight hours, and that Sena PROC were not
Speaker 1: involved until April sixth, four days after the young women
Speaker 1: were first reported missing. In any case, once Sena PROC
Speaker 1: and a government got involved, it said that volunteers were
Speaker 1: cut out of the search, red tape and bureaucracy seemed
Speaker 1: to suddenly overwhelm the process, as if the Panamanian authorities
Speaker 1: were keen to preserve the region's tourist reputation at all costs.
Speaker 1: Local tour guide for Liciano is involved in the search However,
Speaker 1: he speaks to the authorities, claims to aid seen a
Speaker 1: PROC for many days, and even meets the women's families
Speaker 1: when they arrive in Bocketa on April sixth, desperate for answers.
Speaker 1: Perhaps this is significant, perhaps it is not. When Lesana
Speaker 1: and Chris's parents arrive, they immediately offer a thirty thousand
Speaker 1: dollars reward for any information leading to the discovery of
Speaker 1: their daughter's whereabouts. But the reward just seems to complicate things.
Speaker 1: It is a life changing amount of money, and no
Speaker 1: sooner than it's announced, a plethora of tips come flooding in.
Speaker 1: Each have to be looked into and followed up on
Speaker 1: consumer time and resources, and each tip amounts to very
Speaker 1: little or the while. The searches continue, but they are
Speaker 1: messy and poorly coordinated. The women told no one where
Speaker 1: they were going exactly, and the investigation becomes confused by
Speaker 1: conflicting eyewitness accounts and changing testimonies. Some groups cone the
Speaker 1: nearby Baru volcano, others continue to search deep into the jungle.
Speaker 1: On April seventh, a Sena PROC team spends the night
Speaker 1: in the jungle looking for the women. They call out
Speaker 1: and use light signals hacking through the pitch black with machetes,
Speaker 1: but by midnight they've found nothing. They continue day and
Speaker 1: night searches, bringing in dogs to help, but all of
Speaker 1: it is to no avail. By now, the women have
Speaker 1: been missing for ten days. Seen aproc and the Panamanian
Speaker 1: authorities seem prepared to concede.
Speaker 2: That they are no match for the jungle.
Speaker 1: They reduced their search efforts and decrease the resources. The
Speaker 1: rainy season is imminent and if the search was impossible
Speaker 1: during the dry weather patterns, it will be entirely futile
Speaker 1: in a few days time. A Dutch led attempt sees
Speaker 1: a new team of dogs and people flown out from
Speaker 1: the Netherlands, but the rains begin their deluge and the
Speaker 1: teams return to the Netherlands frustrated and empty handed. Forlisana
Speaker 1: and Chris's parents, it is an unrelenting nightmare. Their daughters
Speaker 1: were supposed to return to them. They were not supposed
Speaker 1: to be here without them. Trapsing through the endless jungle,
Speaker 1: willing it to give up its secrets, but the jungle
Speaker 1: does not speak.
Speaker 2: In the end, they.
Speaker 1: Too are forced to give up and return home. At night,
Speaker 1: they are haunted by the endless green, how it swallows
Speaker 1: sounds and smells, devours the senses. Local guides talk about
Speaker 1: the madness that can descend when lost in the jungle,
Speaker 1: when the rains dilute all trace of you, when all
Speaker 1: the trees look the same, when dusk swiftly descends, and
Speaker 1: all the many pairs of eyes begin to glow in
Speaker 1: the gloom. It is so easy to lose your way,
Speaker 1: It is so hard to find it again. You've been
Speaker 1: listening to Unexplained, Season seven, episode twelve, The Jungle Never Sleeps.
Speaker 1: Part one second and final part will be released next Friday,
Speaker 1: December twenty second. This episode was written by Ella McLoud
Speaker 1: and Richard McLain Smith. Unexplained is an Avy Club Productions
Speaker 1: podcast created by Richard McLain Smith. All other elements of
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