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<v Speaker 1>For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the

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<v Speaker 1>stories that, for one reason or other, didn't make it

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<v Speaker 1>into the show. For the last episode, when the snow melts,

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<v Speaker 1>we took an in depth look into the unsettling mystery

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<v Speaker 1>often referred to as the Datlov Pass incident. The incident

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<v Speaker 1>details the mysterious deaths of nine hikers as they attempted

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<v Speaker 1>a challenging trek through the Ural Mountains in Russia. The hikers,

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<v Speaker 1>eight students of the Ural Polytechnic Institute in what was

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<v Speaker 1>once known as Serdlovsk in Russia, and their friend Sascha Koliatov,

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<v Speaker 1>had been making their way towards O'tauton Mountain on February

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<v Speaker 1>the first, nineteen fifty nine, when they made camp on

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<v Speaker 1>a mountain called Kolatsiak. That night, the hikers, for some

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<v Speaker 1>inexplicable reason, were seemingly compelled from the sanctuary of their

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<v Speaker 1>tent and driven to their deaths in the snow and

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<v Speaker 1>subzero temperatures outside. There have been numerous attempts over the

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<v Speaker 1>years to unravel the mystery, with theories involving everything from

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<v Speaker 1>secret weapons testing, UFOs, the wrath of ancient gods, to

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<v Speaker 1>the possible involvement of Mansie tribesmen or KGB, as well

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<v Speaker 1>as natural disasters such as high winds and avalanches. But

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<v Speaker 1>what seems key to any theory were the two startling

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<v Speaker 1>revelations discovered by investigators at the time. One was that

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<v Speaker 1>none of the group had been found with shoes and

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<v Speaker 1>in many cases were woefully underdressed, and the other that

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<v Speaker 1>they appeared to have cut their way out of their

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<v Speaker 1>own tent. The revelations would suggest that most likely something

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<v Speaker 1>unseen had induced a heightened level of fear in the group,

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<v Speaker 1>causing them to take immediate and evasive action, and possibly

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<v Speaker 1>under the influence of sheer blind panic. It is of

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<v Speaker 1>course possible that only one or two of the members

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<v Speaker 1>had reacted in such a way, leaving the others no

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<v Speaker 1>choice but to attempt a rescue, and in some ways

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<v Speaker 1>it seems unlikely that every member would panic in the

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<v Speaker 1>same way, and yet not one of them had taken

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<v Speaker 1>the time to even put on their shoes, which suggests

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<v Speaker 1>whatever it was had them all in its grip. It

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<v Speaker 1>goes without saying that in any normal circumstances, the group

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<v Speaker 1>were well aware of the dangers of being outside in

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<v Speaker 1>minus twenty to thirty temperatures without the requisite clothing. The

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<v Speaker 1>effects of extreme cold are immediate, beginning with the constriction

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<v Speaker 1>of the blood to preserve the body with sufficient winchell,

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<v Speaker 1>frostbite is only a matter of minutes away. Basic muscle

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<v Speaker 1>functions become progressively more and more reduced, until fingers can

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<v Speaker 1>no longer be moved, and then arms and legs. Hyperthermia

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<v Speaker 1>sets in when the body temperature reaches thirty five degrees.

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<v Speaker 1>Soon you become devastatingly disorientated, from which there is only

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<v Speaker 1>a downward spiral of confusion. At thirty two degrees you

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<v Speaker 1>begin to lose consciousness, before probable death around twenty eight degrees.

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<v Speaker 1>All this they would have known, But fear has little

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<v Speaker 1>respect for the intricacies of survival and reason. As perhaps

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<v Speaker 1>the most primitive of all our emotional reactions, how we

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<v Speaker 1>respond to fear are less intensely conditioned, otherwise goes beyond

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<v Speaker 1>past experience and personality, bypasses the ego and head straight

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<v Speaker 1>to the id. For even the most high, highly trained

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<v Speaker 1>and prepared soldier, not until you are actually presented with

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<v Speaker 1>a genuine flight or fight experience do you know how

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<v Speaker 1>you will respond, but more importantly, the response is completely

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<v Speaker 1>beyond your control. And if the hikers were inside the

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<v Speaker 1>tent when whatever happened at first occurred, it wasn't something

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<v Speaker 1>they saw that terrified them so, but something they must

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<v Speaker 1>the early nineteen eighties, British engineer Vic Tandy worked as

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<v Speaker 1>an engineering designer for a company manufacturing anesthetic and intensive

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<v Speaker 1>care equipment. The company operated out of a makeshift lab

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<v Speaker 1>made from two back to back garages, which some of

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<v Speaker 1>the employees claimed was haunted. It was certainly easy to

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<v Speaker 1>see how being surrounded by all the eerie pieces of

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<v Speaker 1>equipment that twitched and rasped with lives of their own

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<v Speaker 1>might leave you feeling more than a little spoot. But

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<v Speaker 1>as for actual ghosts, Vic was a confirmed man of

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<v Speaker 1>science and had little time for such nonsense. That was

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<v Speaker 1>until the night Vic found himself working alone in the

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<v Speaker 1>lab when he began to feel a strange sense of unease.

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<v Speaker 1>Although he was cold, he started to sweat profusely before

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<v Speaker 1>being hit by a profound and sudden low that swept

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<v Speaker 1>over him, followed by the distinct impression that he was

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<v Speaker 1>being watched, And then he saw it, a figure moving

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<v Speaker 1>from out of the shadows into his peripheral vision. It

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<v Speaker 1>was gray and silent, and moved just as he would

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<v Speaker 1>expect a person to move. Only there was nobody else

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<v Speaker 1>in the room and all the doors were locked. Vic

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<v Speaker 1>was terrified. Finally, having built up enough courage, he turned

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<v Speaker 1>to face the apparition, at which point it vanished. A

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<v Speaker 1>somewhat disturbed Vic put the event down to tiredness and

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<v Speaker 1>went home. The following day, Vic, who was a keen fencer,

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<v Speaker 1>had brought a blade into the lab that needed fixing.

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<v Speaker 1>After securing the foil blade in a vice, Vic went

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<v Speaker 1>to look for some oil, returning a short time later

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<v Speaker 1>to find something very strange occurring. The blade was wildly

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<v Speaker 1>oscillating up and down completely of its own accord. Unsurprisingly,

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<v Speaker 1>especially after the events of the previous night, it gave

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<v Speaker 1>Vic a nasty fright. However, unwilling to believe that something

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<v Speaker 1>ghostly had occurred, Vic resolved to find out just what

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<v Speaker 1>exactly was going on. For the blade to be vibrating

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<v Speaker 1>like that, it had to be receiving energy varying in

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<v Speaker 1>intensity at a rate equal to the resonant frequency of

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<v Speaker 1>the blade. Any energy of this type might otherwise be

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<v Speaker 1>referred to as sound. Vic eventually discovered that the lab

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<v Speaker 1>seemed to be harboring a low frequency sound wave that

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<v Speaker 1>was being reflected back and forth by the opposite ends

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<v Speaker 1>of the garage, with the wave bouncing back into itself.

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<v Speaker 1>It created a concentration of energy in the middle of

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<v Speaker 1>the room with a frequency of roughly nineteen hertz. What

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<v Speaker 1>Vic had been experiencing was the very real and very

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<v Speaker 1>physical effects of infrasound. Vic looked around the room for

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<v Speaker 1>a possible source and noticed a newly installed extraction fan

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<v Speaker 1>wearing away at the back. When he turned the fan off,

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<v Speaker 1>the blade stopped vibrating. The phenomenon had first been discovered

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<v Speaker 1>by French scientist Vladimir Gavre in very similar circumstances. Working

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<v Speaker 1>in his lab in the nineteen sixties. Gavrou and his

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<v Speaker 1>assistants had started to experience pain in their ears and

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<v Speaker 1>noticed lab equipment shaking without any obvious reason. He too

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<v Speaker 1>discovered that a large extractor fan had been creating an

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<v Speaker 1>infrasound wave. Infrasound is essentially any sound that registers at

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<v Speaker 1>a frequency less than twenty herds, which, although inaudible to

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<v Speaker 1>most human ears, can none the less induce feelings of

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<v Speaker 1>intense panic, dread, nausea, and, in extreme cases, hallucinations. However,

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<v Speaker 1>many animals with more sensitively evolved hearing have no such

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<v Speaker 1>problems with the frequency, with many including elephants and whales,

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<v Speaker 1>relying heavily on such frequencies for communication. Remarkably, during the

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<v Speaker 1>two thousand and four Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, many

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<v Speaker 1>animals were witnessed fleeing the affected areas some time before

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<v Speaker 1>the devastating waves began to hit. It is highly likely

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<v Speaker 1>that they had sensed the impending danger through infrasound generated

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<v Speaker 1>by the earthquake. Could this same sound have caused such

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<v Speaker 1>fear and panic in the Diatlov team? And imagine the

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<v Speaker 1>effects of such a noise if it was combined with

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<v Speaker 1>something audible, something that would have come suddenly and threateningly

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<v Speaker 1>roaring from out of the dark, as if a jet

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<v Speaker 1>engine had been ignited next to the tent. In Donnika's

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<v Speaker 1>fantastic book Dead Mountain, perhaps the most comprehensive account of

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<v Speaker 1>the Diatlov Pass incident, it is just such a scenario

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<v Speaker 1>that he concludes may have led the students to their deaths.

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<v Speaker 1>After extensively reviewing the evidence, Ike postulates that an obscure

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<v Speaker 1>natural phenomenon known as a von Carmen vortex street may

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<v Speaker 1>have occurred on the night of February the first such

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<v Speaker 1>phenomena can be created when the flow of wind is

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<v Speaker 1>sufficiently disrupted by blunt bodies, resulting in the creation of

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<v Speaker 1>extremely loud and violent tornadoes. It is ICA's belief that

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<v Speaker 1>such an event could have been created by high speed

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<v Speaker 1>winds pummeling into the smooth rounded mountain of Colatsiacle, sending

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<v Speaker 1>vortices roaring down the mountain side right next to the

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<v Speaker 1>Diatlov team's tent. Perhaps this is the same terrifying sound

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<v Speaker 1>that would later give rise to stories of the compoland

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<v Speaker 1>and their nausea inducing screams, or the chilling sound of

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<v Speaker 1>Baba Yaga's pestle and mortar as she hurtles through the

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<v Speaker 1>forest in search of her next victim to devour. And Yet,

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<v Speaker 1>could the broken bones and other devastating injuries found on

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<v Speaker 1>a number of the hikers merely be the result of

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<v Speaker 1>falls sustained in the panic. Lev Ivanoff had not been

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<v Speaker 1>able to say anything at the time, but as the

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<v Speaker 1>years went by, he would finally begin to open up

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<v Speaker 1>his thoughts, collected in an extraordinary interview given in nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>ninety I suspected at the time and I am almost

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<v Speaker 1>sure now. He said that these bright flying spheres had

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<v Speaker 1>a direct connection to the group's death. Only those who

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<v Speaker 1>were inside the orbs no more than me. But whether

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<v Speaker 1>there were people inside that time or any other time

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