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Speaker 1: As we got closer, we could see that there was

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a body in the puddle next to the van. Everything

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was submerged, separate or face, and for me it was like,

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Oh my God, Please don't be dead. Please don't't be dead.

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Speaker 2: This is the Miracle Files. I'm Emily Jones.

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Speaker 3: And I'm Holly Worthington.

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Speaker 4: Sometimes the news and social media can feel pretty dark.

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Speaker 2: And true crime can leave you afraid to even crawl

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into bed. But we're here to prove that there are

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more miracles than murders.

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Speaker 4: In these special Miracles in the News episodes, we dig

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through the headlines for.

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Speaker 2: You because miracles still happen and God is still good.

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Speaker 4: Welcome back to Miracles in the News. Okay, we've all

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heard of quicksand. I'm sure I know. When I was

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a kid, I thought quicksand was like the scariest thing

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in the entire world.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, Like there's like a clip in The Princess

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Bride where he's stuck in the quicksand. Yes, and I

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swear it made me think that quicksand was everywhere. I've

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always convinced I was gonna fall right in.

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Speaker 4: I thought that too, And when I was a kid,

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like our brothers, Mark and Andrew and I would go

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out in the sandbox and we would create all these

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little quicksand pits, and there were quite a few of

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those little army men toys that met their demise in

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those muddy breads.

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Speaker 2: I think I dug up those army men. Years later,

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probably I was like.

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Speaker 3: That you did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, But as an adult, I haven't really felt like

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quicksand was a threat to me.

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Speaker 2: Not about you.

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Speaker 3: Body, No, definitely, not until.

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Speaker 4: I heard about a story in the news recently. And

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it starts in June. Sixty eight year old Katherine Wasner

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is driving her van along a remote road. It's like

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kind of this muddy trail in the woods of northern Minnesota,

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when all of a sudden, her van gets stuck. She's

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completely alone. She's surrounded by nothing but trees and nature

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for miles and it's not like she can flag anyone

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down and get help because there's no one around. So

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she walks to the other side of the van to

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see if there's any way she can get the van unstuck,

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and suddenly she starts sinking.

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Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, her van got stuck on the trail.

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So she got out and fell into the mud that

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she said was like quicksand this all happened east of

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Park Rapids.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Wait, okay, so there's just like a mud quicksand puddle

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right next to her van.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks like just an ordinary mud puddle, but

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it's actually about two feet deep. And when she falls

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into it, the mud underneath just sucks Catherine into it

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and it holds her in place, and the more she

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struggles to get out of it, it actually becomes tighter.

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Speaker 3: The mud just like grips her and will not let

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Speaker 2: So, like, how much of her body is in the mud.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, everything except her face and I'm talking even like

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most of her face, but like her nose and cheeks

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and eyes were out.

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Speaker 2: But I mean, that would be so free duck, that'd

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be so scary.

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Speaker 4: Right, So Catherine has no choice but to just stay

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as still as possible for hours and hours because even

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the smallest movement could cause her to sink further and

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submerge her face. And meanwhile, back home, her family realizes

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that something has to be wrong. So Catherine was last

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seen driving near Akley, Minnesota, but when she doesn't return home,

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authorities issue an endangered missing person alert, especially because she

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has medical conditions.

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Speaker 3: But searchers have.

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Speaker 4: No idea where she's gone, and no one knows that

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Catherine is about one hundred miles away.

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Speaker 2: Wow, in the mud, in the mud, So why is

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she even out there?

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Speaker 1: You know what?

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Speaker 4: The articles didn't really say. I wondered the same thing.

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looking for a beautiful place to go for a drive,

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Speaker 4: I'm not really sure. But time passes, the sun starts

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to go down. She ends up spending the night out

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in the middle of the woods, still stuck in the mud.

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three days, she waits three days under the hot June sun,

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three nights alone in the woods, and the only part

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of her body above the mud. Her face becomes badly sunburned,

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she's dehydrated, and she's just completely unable to escape.

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Speaker 2: It be pure torture. Like we have a game at

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my house called the Misery Index, and like ranks things

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one to one hundred on how awful they would be

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to go through. Gosh, like one's like a step toe

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fifties like maybe like a car accident or something. Number

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one hundred is being buried alive in that game. In

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that game, it actually is like nked torture that is

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possibly go through it crazy. Yeah, yeah, I this was awful.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure like I, it would be such a nightmare.

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And meanwhile, two lifelong friends from North Dakota are getting

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ready for a day of writing their UTVs. Adam Sandbek

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and Mike Gravelan had done this for years together.

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Speaker 3: They have their routine.

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Speaker 4: They normally ride separate machines. They usually stay on familiar trails.

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Speaker 5: They say. They almost always use the same trail, but

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not on Saturday. I have never mapped that trail in

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my life.

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Speaker 1: Ever. We changed everything how we do everything for some reason.

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Speaker 2: Interesting.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, So instead of writing separately, Adam decides to ride

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with Mike. Instead of staying on trails they know well,

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they decide to explore somewhere new, and instead of passing

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by an unfamiliar trail that they never go down, they

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turn onto it. In fact, they actually drive past at first,

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and then they turn around and go back. Mike later

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said that they had driven past this trail for years

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and had never once thought about going down it. And

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this isn't exactly an inviting trail either. It's muddy, it's

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covered with potholes, there's even a fallen tree blocking part

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of it. It's the kind of road most people would

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probably just turn around and avoid. But these two men

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keep going. And then they see a van way back

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in the woods, and Mike immediately knows something isn't right.

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As they get closer to investigate, Adam notices something sticking

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out of a mud puddle. At first, he can't tell

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what he's looking at. Then he realizes it's a human

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face right there in the mud. I can't even imagine what.

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Speaker 3: That moment was like. Be crazy, yeah, crazy.

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Speaker 4: And their first thought is they think they've found a body.

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Their first thought is is they think they've found a body.

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Speaker 1: We started walking towards the body, and for me, it

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was like, oh my god, please don't be dead, Please

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don't be dead.

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Speaker 5: All you can see was just her face sticking out

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of the water.

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Speaker 1: Her ears were submerged, everything was submerged except for her face.

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Speaker 6: Oh my gosh, that would be shocking, shocking, I have

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to say, when I first found this story, somebody had

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created this ai image of this mud puddle with this space,

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and I thought it was real at first, and it

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was so disturbing looking, but that's probably what it really

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Speaker 2: I mean, I have a clear picture in my head. Yeah,

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so so scary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but then something even more shocking happens.

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Speaker 1: Well, we walked up. We thought she was dead, and

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we thought it was just a body, and then she whispered,

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help me, and it scared the crap out of me.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. I'm trying to like put myself in

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these guys shoes and think what I would do, and like,

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I'm sure they're going to do something, but I imagine there

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had to have been a moment where they just were

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frozen in time. Yeah what am I seeing here?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it'd be like something out of a horror movie, honestly,

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I know. But Mike has actually spent thousands of hours

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training as a US Deputy marshal, and it doesn't take

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long before these two men jump into action. They immediately

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start digging her out, but the mud has a suction

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like grip on her whole body, and it ends up

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taking about an hour and a half for these men

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to finally pull Catherine from the mud.

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Speaker 3: That's how stuck she was. Wow. So they then call

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nine one one, and here's the nine one one dispatcher

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summarizing the situation on the call.

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Speaker 1: Came across the vands, second the mud and the female

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party laying in the water.

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Speaker 5: Next to it. She's waiting alert but says she's been

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there for a couple of days.

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Speaker 3: Crazy.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure she wondered if that would be her final

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resting place at some points.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it'd be so hard, so hard.

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Speaker 1: She watched the sun come up and go down while

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she was in that puddle, and she said it was

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like quickset and she couldn't get out.

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Speaker 2: Catherine was even trapped through the previous night's storm.

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Speaker 1: She'd line in the water and you know, watching it

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rain and probably just hoping that the water level doesn't

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Speaker 2: She's a resilient woman, super strong. To be able to

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endure what she did for three days is absolutely amazing.

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I can't imagine that moment where it's you're already stuck

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in mud and you can't move and the water levels

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are rising. Oh, you don't know what you're gonna be

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able to breathe at any second. Like, to make matters worse.

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Speaker 3: She had to felt so panicked and to not be able.

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Speaker 2: To even move this poor woman.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, she definitely has to be a strong woman.

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Speaker 4: So eventually paramedics arrive and they rush Catherine to the hospital,

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and despite everything she's endured, she's expected to make a

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full recovery, and she's so.

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Speaker 3: Grateful to be alive.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Catherine could have easily died in those woods,

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but God had other plans for her, and Adam and

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Mike were literally the angels who saved her life.

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Speaker 2: Wow. I mean, it's not like there's probably a lot

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of research about what happens to your body when you're

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Speaker 3: Three days now, I'm sure not.

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Speaker 2: But it is amazing that she walked away from this alive.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, And so here's the part that really sticks with me,

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no pun intended. In the interviews I watched, Adam kept

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replaying all the little decisions that day that led to

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them finding Catherine, and I agree with him that it

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had to be God, call it the miracle in the mind.

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Speaker 1: We changed how we do everything for some reason, and

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it had to be got it had to be.

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Speaker 2: Isn't that how miracles so often happened? Like something small,

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unexpected changes your path and leads you to where God

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wants you to be. Like, yeah, we hear all the time.

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Speaker 3: I think many of.

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Speaker 4: Us have had experiences where a wrong turn became the

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right turn. You know, or you have a delay that

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leads you to the right place at the right time.

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And one thing is for sure in this story, if

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Adam and Mike had spent that day exactly the way

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they always did, Catherine Wasner probably would never have been found.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And what's so powerful about stories like this is that

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if you allow God to use you, you can be

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the reason that someone else's story continues.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, Well, thank you everyone for joining us today.

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Speaker 3: As always, subscribe.

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Speaker 4: And leave us a review, and make sure to share

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this story with your friends and family. And we'll leave

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you with a few words from the heroes in this story,

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Adam and Mike.

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Speaker 1: We've heard that word hero a lot lately, and we

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ain heroes, just two guys. But I have no doubt

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the hand of God was there guiding us.

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Speaker 4: Hey, there you go.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for joining us.

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the Miracle files dot com or find us on social media.

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Speaker 3: We release new episodes each Monday.

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Speaker 2: Yes, so don't forget Miracle Mondays. Subscribe on your favorite

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podcast platform and YouTube for amazing video content as well.

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Speaker 4: Join us next time as we discover more of God's miracles,

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and don't forget to look for His light in your

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own lives