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Speaker 1: know the answer too. Well. Hello, and welcome to Thinking

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Speaker 1: Sideways the podcast. I'm Steve, and we have another unusual

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Speaker 1: story for you this week. We do, so let's just

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Speaker 1: go this. This is. This is does not fall in

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Speaker 1: I kind of diverged a little bit here just bear

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Speaker 1: with me through this, dude. They have a format for

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Speaker 1: a reason, you know. Processor Yeah, our story starts in

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Speaker 1: West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, on the Overton House estate. It's a

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Speaker 1: But the house is not actually the subject of our story.

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Speaker 1: Oh I know. Near the house is the Overton Bridge,

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Speaker 1: which was built in and spans the Overton Burn burns

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Speaker 1: strange activity whatsoever until the nineteen fifties. Since the nineteen fifties,

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Speaker 1: over fifty dogs have apparently committed suicide by jumping from

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Speaker 1: Some hit the bushes that are below. Some aren't that lucky,

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Speaker 1: or their owners were able to stop them from actually jump.

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Speaker 1: Why do people keep bringing their dogs to this bridge

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Speaker 1: that I want to know, that's a very good question.

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Speaker 1: It's not until recently the people have figured out that

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Speaker 1: it's an unleash area. It actually would be hilarious if

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Speaker 1: the dogs would just like leap over and take their

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Speaker 1: owners with them. Yeah, well that's that's not the way

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Speaker 1: it went. Uh. Those dogs that survived the fall, when

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Speaker 1: they were brought back to the bridge, they happily tried

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Speaker 1: consistencies in every situation. Every one of the dogs that

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Speaker 1: nose breed, so that's a Labrador, a Collie retriever, that

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Speaker 1: every time a dog has jumped, it's also been on

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Speaker 1: caused It's an unknown phenomena. There's there's got to be

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Speaker 1: have a number of theories, as always, some that sound plausible,

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Speaker 1: Other reports say the Overton houses hunted and that maybe

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