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Speaker 1: Okay, so picture this. It's late twenty nineteen, somewhere just

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north of Houston, Texas, right, and it is the most

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mundane scene you can possibly imagine. A guy is just

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walking down his own driveway in the evening, the.

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Speaker 2: Kind of thing that happens millions of times a.

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Speaker 1: Day, exactly. His ring doorbell camera is on, probably expecting,

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you know, a package delivery or maybe the neighbor's cat.

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Speaker 2: But that is not what a capture, not even close.

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Speaker 1: As this man, who will just call the Vanishing Texan,

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turns toward his garage, he just stops. He freezes for

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maybe half a second, and.

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Speaker 2: In that moment, the entire ordinary world just seems to collapse.

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In a single frame of video. The man is gone, gone,

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just completely instantaneously vanished from the feed. And then the

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final absolutely baffling detail, a bright ball of light shoots

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straight up from where he was standing and just tears

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through the night sky.

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Speaker 1: So the question is, did we just witness the first

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verified act of of human teleportation.

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Speaker 2: Or a glitchen the matrix, or is this something.

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Speaker 1: Much more are grounded, something we can actually explain.

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Speaker 2: That really sounds like the mission statement for this entire

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deep dive, doesn't it.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to thrilling threads. This is where we take all

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the evidence you've shared with us, the viral clips, the

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historical accounts, the scientific papers, and we just we dive in.

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Speaker 2: Our goal is to synthesize all of those impelling details

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and figure out where that line is the line between

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what's truly anomalous and what's well, surprisingly normal.

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Speaker 1: And you, the learner, have really tasked us with an

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ambitious journey. Today. We have seven different phenomena that seem

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to just defy all logic.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a huge range. We're talking everything from spacetime

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glitches and suburban kitchens to these haunting faces that keep

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appearing at a concrete floor in Spain.

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Speaker 1: And even potential glimpses into actual mirror worlds.

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Speaker 2: So our mission today is to unpack all of this.

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We're going to weigh the really far out theories wormholes,

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dimensional shifts against the more grounded explanations.

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Speaker 1: Right, things like physics, chemistry, and let's be honest, often

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just plain faulty technology.

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Speaker 2: We are hunting for that needle of true impossibility and

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a giant haystack of misinterpretation.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so let's get into this first big theme, we're

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looking at anomalies that suggest some kind of temporary distortion

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of space time.

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Speaker 2: And we're starting right back in Texas, but this time

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we're rewinding a bit to twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: We're in a suburban kitchen in Houston. A woman named

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Erica Garner is home alone, and the whole scene is

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just set for this kind of domestic eriness.

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Speaker 2: But the strange part is you pointed out in the notes,

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it didn't start in the house. It started outside, almost

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like a warning.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Erica was outside with her dogs just before it happened,

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and she noticed this group of blackbirds circling her rooftop. Okay,

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bird circle, that's not too weird, right, But she was

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adamant that this was different. It was a really distinct,

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unnatural circular pattern. They weren't just flying around, they were

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in this tight, deliberate formation. She said she'd never seen

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anything like it, and that in that moment it felt

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like an immediate bad omen kind.

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Speaker 2: Of psychological framing is so important, you know, whether you

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believe it's actual supernatural foreshadowing or just your brain being

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on highlert. That feeling that something is wrong just colors

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everything that comes after it.

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Speaker 1: She totally does. So she goes back inside, she's giving

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her dog some water, and that is when the light

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just explodes into the room.

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Speaker 2: Suddenly, this intense blue light streaks through.

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Speaker 1: The kitchen, and her description is incredibly vivid, which is

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a huge help for the analysis. She said, it was

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almost like plasma.

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Speaker 2: Plasma. Wow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, everything in the room just turned completely white. And

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she said her eyes started burning like an explosion had

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gone off right next to her.

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Speaker 2: Let's just pause on that word plasma, because if she

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really saw plasma, we're talking about the fourth.

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Speaker 1: State of matter, right, Not just a bright light.

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Speaker 2: No, we're talking about an ionized gas where electrons have

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been ripped away from atoms because of incredible heat or electricity.

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create a room filling plasma event. That word alone elevates

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this way beyond a simple short circuit.

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Speaker 1: But this is where the time distortion part really kicks in.

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The video shows the flash lasted maybe a second, just

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one second, but Eric insists that for her, subjectively, it

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felt much much longer. She perceived it as traveling slowly

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across the room. Her exact words were like a train

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coming across the room, slowly coming in for a stop.

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Speaker 2: And how long did she think it lasted?

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Speaker 1: She was absolutely certain it was about seven seconds.

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Speaker 2: Seven seconds versus one. That is a massive subjective time difference.

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brain was processing the event in extreme slow motion or

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the event itself somehow stretched that moment.

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Speaker 1: And the weirdness didn't stop when the light faded. She

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said that night things got downright funky. She couldn't sleep.

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Speaker 2: What kind of dreams?

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Speaker 1: Vivid images of pink and purple galaxies. She felt like

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she'd been trans poured through time or consciousness during that

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seven second gap she experienced.

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Speaker 2: And that feeling, the sense of transport, is what leads

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to the extraterrestrial theory exactly.

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Speaker 1: Erica herself wondered if the blue flash was some kind

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of alien force. She'd done some research and found that

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these intense, silent blue light beams are often associated with

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alleged alien abductions.

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Speaker 2: It immediately makes you think of that famous historical case,

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right Travis Walden.

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Speaker 1: The Arizona Lagger from nineteen seventy five. Yeah, he disappears

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after walking towards this beam of light in the woods.

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When he's found, he remembers being transported surrounded by entities.

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Speaker 2: And the critical part for this comparison is the time gap.

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He was shocked to learn he'd been gone for five

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full days. His subjective experience was completely out of sync

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Speaker 1: So with Erica's case, we have to start ruling things out.

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have to prove it's not just a bad camera or

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a weird power search.

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Speaker 2: The first simplest explanation a camera mel function, was pretty

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much immediately dismissed. Why is that Because you can hear

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her audio reaction in real time. It's perfectly synced with

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the flash on the video. She was physically reacting to

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something real that was happening in that room.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's not the camera just freaking out on

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Speaker 2: No, But a forensic photography expert Andrew McCarthy, he did

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find some very odd technological things that actually support the

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glitch idea oh interesting. When he looked at the footage

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frame by frame, he found a distinct jump, a point

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where the camera just lost several frames of video.

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Speaker 2: A definite gap. And during this jump you can see

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pretty significantly. It strongly suggests a period of time, whether

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Speaker 1: That missing data is huge, it is.

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Speaker 2: But McCarthy pointed out something even stranger about the light itself,

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something that seems to defy physics. He noted that the

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light was uniformly bright across the whole room. Okay, and crucially,

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it casts no shadows.

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Speaker 1: Wait what no shadows? How is it that possible?

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Speaker 2: I mean, think about it. Any light source, by definition,

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on the dogs, nothing under the counter.

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Speaker 1: So where was the light coming from?

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Speaker 2: McCarthy calculated that for the light to be that bright

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and cast no shadows, the source would have had to

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come from behind the camera, perfectly illuminating the room from

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the lenses perspective.

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Speaker 1: That makes absolutely no sense for a random flash in

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a kitchen. It's almost like the light just enveloped the

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entire scene instead of coming from a single point exactly.

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Speaker 2: So then the investigators moved on to more normal possibilities.

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A forensic investigator named Chase Koletsky, she wanted to test

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the idea of a simple blown light bulb.

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Speaker 1: How do you even test for that?

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Speaker 2: She actually had the garners do it. She had them

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take a replacement bulb and tap it until it blew

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event on the video, and the result not even close.

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It was her conclusion. A light bulb blowing is a tiny,

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localized explosion of glass and a quick flicker. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: Okay, so no blown bulb. What about lightning?

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Speaker 2: An atmospheric scientist Deanna Hence checked that she looked at

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the local weather radar and yes, there were intense thunderstorms

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Speaker 1: Ah, so maybe it was lightning, but they.

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Speaker 2: Passed through around one in the morning. The video was

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Speaker 1: So you've ruled out a camera glitch, a blown bulb

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into theoretical physics. Experts like Kletzky started seriously considering things

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like wormholes or temporary gravitational distortions.

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Speaker 1: You mean, things that could create a path for time

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travel or access to a parallel universe.

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Speaker 2: That's the idea, And that's exactly where Chase close Key

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landed with her conclusion. She stands firmly on the side

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of this being a time glitch or an error in

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Speaker 1: And it's the combination of the evidence that gets you there.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's the missing frames, the light that casts no shadows,

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and that severe subjective time dilation Eric experienced. It all

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points to something beyond our current understanding.

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Speaker 1: Wow, so this one, for now really holds up as

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a genuine, unexplained phenomenon, a very compelling thread.

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Speaker 2: So the Houston case really shows how modern digital tech

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can misrepresent her distort reality.

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Speaker 1: Right, but what if time travelers left clues behind in

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the past long before we even had cameras. Let's switch

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gears and look at some historical artifacts that seem way

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out of their own time.

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Speaker 2: This is where art history and internet conspiracy theories collide.

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And the big one that kicked all this off was

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a painting from eighteen sixty by Ferdinand George Waldmiller called

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Speaker 1: It's a beautiful painting, very typical for the period, a

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young woman walking through a meadow.

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Speaker 2: But it's what she's holding in her hands that caused

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the frenzy. She's holding it right up.

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Speaker 1: To her face and it looks, I mean, it looks

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exactly like a modern smartphone.

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Speaker 2: It really does. And what sells it is the pose

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day now, head bowed, eyes glued to a little glowing rectangle.

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sixty and not see someone checking their texts.

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Speaker 1: And of course, once that went viral, people started connecting

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it to other alleged sightings of future tech.

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Speaker 2: In old art, right like the nineteen thirty seven mural

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Byromberdo Romano seems to show a Native American man staring

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intently into a small, dark device that looks a lot

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Speaker 1: And then there's the one that goes even further back,

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which to me is the most intriguing a church fresco

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from the sixteen hundreds in Italy by an artist name

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of Ventura Salambini.

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Speaker 2: It shows God in Christ and between them is this

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bizarre sphere with two rods.

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Speaker 1: Sticking out of it, and people immediately said it looked

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Speaker 2: The challenge there is just massive conceptually. How does a

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Speaker 1: No, it's based in real theoretical physics. The physicist Hachem

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Olusia confirms that the laws of physics do, under very

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extreme conditions, allow for it.

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Speaker 2: He specifically talks about wormholes, these hypothetical tunnels through space time.

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If you could somehow accelerate one end of wormholes to

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near the speed of light, you could theoretically exit the

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wormhole before you even entered.

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Speaker 1: It, you'd be traveling backward in time exactly.

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Speaker 2: It shows that space and time are not the absolute

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fixed things we perceive them to be.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so it's theoretically possible, but is it probable? I mean,

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would a time traveler from the year, say, thirty to

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fifty really bring a clunky twenty seventeen era iPhone back

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to eighteen sixties Austria.

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Speaker 2: And that's the logical problem that the skeptic Micwest brings up.

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tech would be far beyond what we have now. Why

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would they stop off in our era to grab a

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primitive smartphone before jumping back centuries? It doesn't add up.

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Speaker 1: It feels like we're just imposing our modern world onto

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the past, a sort of historical peridolia.

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Speaker 2: And that's exactly what's happening. The true identity of these

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objects is much more grounded in the history of the time.

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For the woman in the expected.

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Speaker 1: One the smartphone right.

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Speaker 2: Kathy, an art historian, explained that in the nineteenth century,

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it was incredibly common for people, especially devout women, to

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carry small devotional books like a hymnal or a prayer

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book exactly the printing press had made them cheap and

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widely available. By the eighteen sixties, carrying one and holding

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it close for contemplation was a totally normal thing to do.

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Speaker 1: And if you look at museum examples from that period,

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the books are the exact size and shape of the

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object in the painting.

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Speaker 2: So it's a book, not iPhone. And the supposed spot

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nick in the Salambani Fresco is just as easily explained

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once you understand Renaissance religious art.

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Speaker 1: It's not a satellite. Now.

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Speaker 2: George and other historian identified it as a creation globe.

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Speaker 1: A creation globe, what's that?

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Speaker 2: It was a common artistic symbol from that time used

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to show God as the supreme architect of the universe.

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It's a sphere representing creation, and this so called antennae

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their scepters. They symbolize the divine authority of God in Christ.

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The artist was just using the visual language of his

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day to depict the creation of the world.

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Speaker 1: It's a peopled example of how context is everything. So

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the verdict is a clear case of misidentification. We see

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smartphones everywhere, so we see them in the past, right.

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Speaker 2: And while we can't rule out that time travel might

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one day be possible. Physicists agree on that these particular

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paintings are definitely not the smoking gun.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so we've seen that sometimes it's not time that's

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the issue. It's just you know, our own faulty lenses

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or misinterpretations.

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Speaker 2: Right now, we're going to step away from time dilation

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and optic and get into something much more fundamental, the

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laws of chemistry and physics.

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Speaker 1: And we're starting with a decades long mystery that is

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literally cemented into a kitchen floor in Spain.

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Speaker 2: We're heading to the small village of bell Mess in Andalusia, Spain,

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for one of the most persistent and fankally unsettling domestic

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mysteries ever recorded, the bell Mez Faces.

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Speaker 1: The story begins in August nineteen seventy one. A woman

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named Maria Gomez Kamara notices a weird discoloration on her

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concrete kitchen floor.

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Speaker 2: And it wasn't just a stain. Over a few days,

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it visibly changed. It morphed until it formed the distinct

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image of a human face, a very solemn looking face.

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Speaker 1: Her first reaction must have been just to clean it.

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Speaker 2: Of course, she tried to scrub it away, but it

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wouldn't budge, So her husband, Santiago, he decides to take

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a more direct approach.

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Speaker 1: He gets out a sledgehammer.

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Speaker 2: Pretty much, he tore up that entire section of the

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concrete floor and then very carefully re cemented it. You'd

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think that would be the end of it, but it

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wasn't at all. Exactly one week later, the face reappeared

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on the brand new concrete, and then others started to

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form around it.

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Speaker 1: That's the part that's so incredible, the persistence. They kept

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trying to get rid of them, and the faces just

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kept coming back for decades.

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Speaker 2: This obviously brought a huge amount of attention and official investigations,

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and right away the initial analysis found no evidence of

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paint or pigments or any kind of physical tampering.

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Speaker 1: So it ruled out a simple hoax from the beginning.

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Speaker 2: It did, But then the story took an even more

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spiritual turn. While researchers were examining the site, they found

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something deeply unsettling underneath the house. What was it human remains,

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long expired human remains. They confirmed the house had been

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built right on top of a late eighteen hundreds Catholic

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cemetery that had been forgotten.

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Speaker 1: They just built over it after removing the headstones.

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Speaker 2: Exactly, and that discovery just fueled the spiritual theory. People

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believed the faces were the spirits of the dead buried

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beneath the floor trying.

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Speaker 1: To manifest, and the family has always insisted it wasn't

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a hoax.

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Speaker 2: To this day. So we have to tackle the big

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rule outs here, first perry dolia and second some kind

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of very clever fraud.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with pery dolia. That's just seeing faces in

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random patterns, right, like in clouds or toast right.

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Speaker 2: And while maybe the first image could have been a coincidence,

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the fact that these specific faces kept reappearing in roughly

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the same spots after the floor was completely replaced, that

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seems to go beyond simple random staining.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what about the miracle angle? Could this be

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a religious phenomenon, a Catholic miracle?

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Speaker 2: Researcher Michael O'Neill he compared Belmez to some confirmed miracles,

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like an image of the Virgin Mary in Austria. They

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kept returning to a pane of glass even after it

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was cleaned.

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Speaker 1: With acid, and that was declared a miracle.

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Speaker 2: It was, but O'Neil says, Bellmez doesn't quite meet that

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standard because the face returning was never actually witnessed in

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real time. It always reappeared between observations.

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Speaker 1: Leaving a little window for a skeptical explanation.

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Speaker 2: Exactly which brings us to the most rigorous chemical analysis.

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In twenty fourteen, a Spanish chemical engineering firm went in

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with infrared scanners and electron.

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Speaker 1: Microscopes and what did they find?

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Speaker 2: Something astonishing. They found zero traces of any inorganic materials

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like paint. Where the images were. The color difference was

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happening inside the concrete itself.

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Speaker 1: So if it's not paint being added, what could it be.

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Speaker 2: This is where the analyst Mick West comes in with

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a really clever theory. He suggested the faces weren't made

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by adding color, but by removing it.

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Speaker 1: How would that work?

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Speaker 2: If you look closely, the faces are paler in the

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middle with the darker concrete around them. West proposed that

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someone could use a chemical agent, something like bleach to

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alter or remove the carbon molecules in the concrete.

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Speaker 1: And bleach would just evaporate right precisely.

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Speaker 2: It would leave no residue for forensic tests to find.

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Making it look like the concrete just spontaneously changed color

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on its own. It's a very in theory for a hoax.

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Speaker 1: There's a butt, isn't there There is?

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Speaker 2: Despite how logical the bleach hypothesis sounds, the most recent,

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most advanced testing did not detect bleach or any other

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known chemical residue. They've tested for pretty much everything.

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Speaker 1: So after decades of analysis, replacing the floor multiple times,

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ruling out everything from ghosts to bleach, where does that

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leave us?

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Speaker 2: It leaves us with a genuine, officially unexplained phenomenon. We

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have no concrete proof of fraud and no proven chemical

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explanation for why these faces keep coming back. It's a

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true mystery.

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Speaker 1: From a persistent mystery in Spain. Let's jump across the

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globe to northern Tanzania where at Lake Natron in twenty.

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Speaker 2: Ten, and this is one of the most visually shocking

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natural phenomena ever caught on camera. Yeah, it's an incredible

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example of just how powerful natural chemistry can be.

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Speaker 1: A British photographer went there and was just stunned by

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what he saw. The pictures he took went viral almost instantly.

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Speaker 2: They showed animals of flamingo songbirds that appeared to be

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completely petrified, frozen in place, perfectly intact, looking like these

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horrifying wicker statues.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they look exactly like victims of Medusa from Greek

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mythology turned to stone in the middle of a movement.

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The imagery is so chilling it immediately sparked local mythological theories.

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Speaker 2: There's a local legend of a creature called Popobawa. It's

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a bat like demon that's said to paralyze people in their.

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Speaker 1: Sleep, and they thought this creature was responsible for the animals.

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Speaker 2: Many locals did, Yes, they thought Papa Bawa was killing

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and freezing the animals at the lake.

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Speaker 1: But the science writer Amy Title she helped rule that

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out pretty quickly.

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Speaker 2: She did. According to the actual myth, Paba Bawa only

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attacks humans to spread fear. An attack just on animals

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is inconsistent with the legend.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So if it's not a demon, what about a

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biological predator?

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Speaker 2: A wildlife biologist, doctor Stephanie Shuttler, looked at that. She

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noted that while some animals like snakes or spiders can

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paralyze their prey with venom, they then eat them right

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the bodies of these animals were are completely intact and preserved.

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That rules out common predators.

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Speaker 1: There is also a theory about toxic algae. Right the

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lake sometimes looks red.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Biologists named doctor Floyd Hayes noted that red tides,

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which are caused by algae, can produce powerful neurotoxins that

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kill animals. But organisms killed that way just actually they

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disintegrate quickly. They don't get preserved, so that's not it either,

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which brings us to a NASA geologist, doctor Bob Anderson,

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who provides the real chemical solution, And honestly it's just

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as dramatic as any myth.

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Speaker 1: It all comes down to the nearby volcano, Old duignolen Gai.

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Speaker 2: The volcano is the absolute key. Its unique magma spews

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out toxic gases and nutrients that feed the algae. But

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the real secret ingredient is the high concentration of something

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called natron.

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Speaker 1: Natron what's that.

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Speaker 2: It's basically sodium bicarbonate, a very alkaline salt mixture. It

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formed over thousands of years as volcanic ash cover the

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lake basin and the water evaporated, concentrating it intensely.

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Speaker 1: So this isn't normal lake water we're talking.

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Speaker 2: About, not even remotely. The lake is extremely alkaline, with

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a pH between nine and ten point five. To give

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you some context, human blood is around seven point four.

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This water is highly caustic. It's deadly to most life

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that isn't specifically adapted to it.

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Speaker 1: And that chemical environment is what turns the birds into statues.

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Speaker 2: The extreme alkalinity is the perfect preservative. Doctor Anderson explains

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that when animals fall into the lake and get covered

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by the alkaline mud, they undergo a process very similar

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to mummification.

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Speaker 1: The high sodium content prevents decomposition.

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Speaker 2: It prevents decomposition and effectively mineralizes their adder tissues. In fact,

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natron is the exact same substance the ancient Egyptians used

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in their mummification process.

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Speaker 1: Wow, so it's not petrification, it's mummification.

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Speaker 2: Natural chemical mummification. It's fascinating, deadly process.

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Speaker 1: But there's still one piece of the puzzle missing, the

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part that made the photos so haunting. Why were the

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creatures frozen mid motion?

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Speaker 2: That's the true uncanny part, isn't it. If they just

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died and fell in the lake, they'd be found in

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a more relaxed dead posture. The action poses were the

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real mystery.

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Speaker 1: And this is where we get the twist in the verdict.

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Speaker 2: It is when the photographer Nick Brandt was asked about

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those unnatural poses, he admitted that, oh, that's not how

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he found them.

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Speaker 1: He posed them.

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Speaker 2: He did. He found the animals already dead and preserved

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on shore, and then he posed them. He placed them

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on branches or perches to get that haunting, artistic look

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for his photos. He wanted to give them a final,

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dignified but visually arresting life.

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Speaker 1: So the incredible preservation is all science, natural chemical mummification,

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but the terrifying artistic presentation that's all human creativity exactly.

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Speaker 2: The mystery is solved by combining geology, chemistry, and a

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little bit of artistic license.

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Speaker 1: Okay, we're moving now into the realm of dimension hopping.

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We're going to look at videos that seemed to suggest

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shifts between realities or even breakthroughs in quantum physics, and.

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Speaker 2: For this we are going to need the sharpest possible

479
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lens of forensic analysis.

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Speaker 1: Our first stop is Weston super Mare in England. Back

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in September twenty nineteen. A woman wakes up, looks at

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her bedroom wall and just starts filming because something absolutely

483
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bizarre is happening.

484
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Speaker 2: Projected onto her wall is the outside world. You can

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see a row of white residential buildings.

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Speaker 1: And even a red car driving past in what looks

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like real.

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Speaker 2: Time, but it's all perfectly upside down.

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Speaker 1: She's genuinely shocked. In the video, you can hear her

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asking what is this sorcery that is happening as she

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waves her hand and casts a shadow on it.

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Speaker 2: The video went viral, and of course people jump to

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the most exciting conclusion. She was looking through a temporary

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portal into an alternate dimension, and.

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Speaker 1: That connects directly to the principles of string theory, which

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isn't just science fiction, not at all.

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Speaker 2: String theory proposes that the fundamental bits of our universe

498
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aren't particles but tiny, vibrating one dimensional strength, and.

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Speaker 1: The math behind it suggests there could be more dimensions

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than the or we perceive exactly.

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Speaker 2: The math often requires up to ten or eleven dimensions,

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so in theory, there could be these near identical mirror

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worlds existing right alongside ours.

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Speaker 1: So has this woman just stumbled upon a casual portal

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in her bedroom?

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Speaker 2: The theoretical physicist mitchyo Kaku gives a pretty decisive rule

507
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out on that. He confirms that, yes, theoretically a wormhole

508
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could connect two dimensions, but the energy needed to create

509
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and sustain a stable portal like that would be so immense,

510
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so mind bogglingly huge, that the entire bedroom and everything

511
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in it would be instantly sucked inside and destroyed. This

512
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was clearly not a wormhole.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so no interdimensional travel. The forensic analyst Mick West

514
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then looked at the tech explanations.

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Speaker 2: First, he ruled out CGI. The woman waving her hand

516
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and casting a real shadow on the image proves it's

517
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a real projection of light on.

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Speaker 1: The wall, and it couldn't be a normal projector either.

519
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Speaker 2: No, because that wouldn't explain why the image is upside down. Plus,

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based on where her shadow falls, the projector would have

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to be exactly where the window is, which is impossible.

522
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The light was coming from the window.

523
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Speaker 1: Which is the clue. The solution required just looking closer

524
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at the room.

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Speaker 2: A great lesson in paying attention to the details in

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the video. Her curtains are almost totally closed, but they

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leave one tiny gap, a small thin rectangle an aperture.

528
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Speaker 1: And that little hole was acting as a pinhole camera,

529
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the classic camera obscura effect.

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Speaker 2: Can you break down the physics of that mmmm, because

531
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it's such a simple and elegant Aha moment.

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Speaker 1: It's pure optics. Light rays bounce off an object like

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the neighbor's house and travel in straight lines. When those

534
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rays have to pass through a tiny hole, the rays

535
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from the top of the house pass through and hit

536
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the bottom of the wall inside, and.

537
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Speaker 2: The rays from the bottom of the house hit the

538
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top of the wall exactly.

539
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Speaker 1: The light rays cross as they go through the pinhole,

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and that causes the image to be projected perfectly upside

541
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down on the opposite surface. It's a beautiful fundamental principle

542
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of physics.

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Speaker 2: And to prove it, Mast actually recreated it himself. He

544
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put a plastic sheet with a small hole over his

545
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window dark in the.

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Speaker 1: Room, and it worked. He projected his backyard onto his

547
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garage wall upside down.

548
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Speaker 2: So that seemingly bizarre portal into an inverted dimension was

549
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just the neighbor's houses flipped by basic physics that we've

550
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known about for centuries. A powerful reminder that the universe

551
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follows laws even when it looks like magic.

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Speaker 1: Let's circle back now to the idea of teleportation, moving

553
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away from theory and back to apparent video evidence, starting

554
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again with our vanishing Texan, the.

555
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Speaker 2: Man who freezes and disappears from his driveway while a

556
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ball of light shoots up.

557
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Speaker 1: And to give us some context, let's bring in another

558
00:26:41,319 --> 00:26:45,680
classic vanishing clip, the Vanishing Bandit from Georgia in nineteen

559
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ninety seven.

560
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Speaker 2: Ah. Yes, the police datshcam footage a high speed chase.

561
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The car thief takes a sharp left turn and.

562
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Speaker 1: Appears to drive straight through a ten foot chain link

563
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fence that is left completely standing and intact. The officer

564
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was totally baffled. He had no idea how it was possible.

565
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Speaker 2: It looks for all the world like the car just

566
00:27:05,920 --> 00:27:06,799
phased right through it.

567
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Speaker 1: So let's be clear, teleportation is a real thing, right

568
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just at the quantum level, it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Doctor Masters confirmed that scientists have successfully teleported photons

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and even single atoms using something called quantum entanglement. This

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is hard tested science.

572
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Speaker 1: Remind us what quantum entanglement is.

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Speaker 2: It's what Einstein called spooky action. At a distance, two

574
00:27:26,319 --> 00:27:29,799
subatomic particles become linked, sharing the same existence. No matter

575
00:27:29,839 --> 00:27:32,559
how far apart they are. If you measure one, you

576
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:34,119
instantly know the state of the other.

577
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Speaker 1: And that's how the teleportation works.

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Speaker 2: You're not moving the particle itself, you're moving its quantum

579
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state the information about it. In twenty seventeen, a Chinese

580
00:27:44,359 --> 00:27:47,799
experiment teleported the quantum state of a photon eight hundred

581
00:27:47,799 --> 00:27:51,519
and seventy miles to a satellite. The concept is proven.

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Speaker 1: But teleporting a whole person that's a whole different ballgame.

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Speaker 2: The energy cost is just staggering. It would take the

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energy an entire city uses in a year to teleport

585
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just one human.

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Speaker 1: So with that in mind, let's go back to the

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vanishing Texan. Michael Primo, the video analyst. He noted that

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ring doorbell footage uses a very high level of visual compression, and.

589
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Speaker 2: That compression is key. It's how the camera saves data,

590
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especially when it's sending it over Wi Fi to the cloud.

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Speaker 1: So what did his analysis show.

592
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Speaker 2: He used some advanced techniques macro block and motion vector

593
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analysis to see how the camera was processing the image.

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Speaker 1: What does that mean?

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Speaker 2: In simple terms, think of the image as a grid

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of little blocks. The camera's encoder just documents the changes

597
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in those blocks from frame to frame, instead recording the

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whole picture every time.

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Speaker 1: So if the data stream hiccups, exactly what happened.

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Speaker 2: Primo's analysis found a critical flaw. For a period of

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thirty frames, the encoder just stopped documenting new pixel information.

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The camera lost its connection.

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Speaker 1: So the man didn't vanish, The camera just stops seeing

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him for a second.

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Speaker 2: Right. The camera's computer basically filled in the gap with

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no new data, and the result is what looks like

607
00:28:59,079 --> 00:29:03,000
an impossible day disappearance. There was a technological error, probably

608
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just a momentary Wi Fi drop.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that explains man. What about the vanishing car? The

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idea that a chain link fence can swing open and

611
00:29:10,319 --> 00:29:13,240
shut that fast seems almost as hard to believe.

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Speaker 2: It's a fair point. But Lieutenant Daniel's the officer. He

613
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investigated that fence very closely afterwards, and he found the solution,

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and it all came down to shoddy construction.

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Speaker 1: House.

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Speaker 2: On most fences, the chain link mesh is on the

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outside of the posts, so it's a rigid barrier. But

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on this particular fence, it was installed on the back

619
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side of the posts. Oh, it was only held on

620
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by these weak, little aluminum ties, so when the car

621
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hit it at high speed, the ties just popped off

622
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:41,160
and the whole section of fence swung open like a

623
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flimsy garage door.

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Speaker 1: And gravity just pulled it right back down into place.

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Speaker 2: Instantly before the police car could even get there. The

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fence had swung shut and looked perfectly intact. The officer's

627
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shock was totally genuine because the evidence of the opening

628
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:57,079
had vanished.

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Speaker 1: So our verdict on both of these is just dane failure,

630
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a camera glitch, and a badly built fence.

631
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Speaker 2: The dream of Beam Me Up, Scottie is still firmly

632
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in the realm of theoretical physics, not suburban driveways.

633
00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: All right. Our final thread takes us into a forest

634
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outside Portland, organ in twenty seventeen, a hiker records a

635
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video of himself walking straight through a freestanding mirror.

636
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Speaker 2: As if it were an open door. It's an incredibly

637
00:30:24,359 --> 00:30:28,480
disorienting video. After he passes through the plane of the mirror,

638
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he turns around and the world behind him seems to

639
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be flipped.

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Speaker 1: He even points out an example, there's azy on a

641
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tree that was on the right side before he went through,

642
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:37,079
and it's on the left side after.

643
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Speaker 2: And this feeds directly into the real scientific idea of

644
00:30:40,200 --> 00:30:43,000
mirror worlds. And this part is fascinating because it's not

645
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just science fiction. Scientists are actually running experiments on this based.

646
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Speaker 1: On weird measurements of neutrons.

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Speaker 2: Right exactly, when you take neutrons out of an atom's nucleus,

648
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they decay, But physicists have noticed a strange discrepancy, suggesting

649
00:30:57,960 --> 00:31:03,640
some neutrons are just disappearing, violating the law of conservation

650
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:04,279
of mass.

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Speaker 1: So where are they going?

652
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Speaker 2: A leading theory is that they're disappearing into a parallel

653
00:31:08,480 --> 00:31:12,079
universe made of mirror matter, that they're turning into mirror

654
00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:14,720
versions of themselves that we just can't see or interact with.

655
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Speaker 1: So if that theory is real, did this hiker just

656
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find the front door?

657
00:31:18,279 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 2: The astrophysicist Akima Lussa puts the brakes on that idea.

658
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He says that while a mirror universe is theoretically possible,

659
00:31:26,279 --> 00:31:29,839
physicists means something that doesn't interact with our reality at all.

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Speaker 1: It's not something you can just walk into.

661
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:35,079
Speaker 2: No, stepping through a portal like that would require staggering

662
00:31:35,119 --> 00:31:37,839
amounts of energy, far beyond what a mirror in the

663
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woods could manage.

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Speaker 1: So we're back to a more prosaic explanation, and the

665
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forensic analyst, Mickwest, he figured this one out.

666
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Speaker 2: He determined it was just an impressively made, very sophisticated

667
00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:51,599
hoax that relies on clever camera trickery.

668
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Speaker 1: And the key is the geometry, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: It's all about the angle. The hiker approaches the mirror

670
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,759
at a very precise forty five degree angle. This is

671
00:32:00,799 --> 00:32:04,039
critical because it allows him to walk past the mirror

672
00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:06,480
without ever seeing his own reflection.

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Speaker 1: Which would instantly shatter the illusion. The mirror is just

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reflecting the forest around him exactly.

675
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Speaker 2: But the dimensional flip, the part where the ivy moves,

676
00:32:14,559 --> 00:32:17,799
that's done with editing. How it's two quick camera cuts.

677
00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,759
The hiker walks up to the mirror, stops, rotates, and

678
00:32:20,839 --> 00:32:23,200
walks back out the way he came. Then the video

679
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is cut and the scene is manipulated to make it

680
00:32:25,599 --> 00:32:29,279
look like he passed through and the world flipped. It's

681
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just very very clever editing.

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Speaker 1: The genius is in the choreography, not the quantum physics.

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Speaker 2: So our verdict is a sophisticated hoax. While a mirror

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universe might exist, You're not going to find a portal

685
00:32:41,279 --> 00:32:43,839
to it on a hiking trail in Oregon. It proves

686
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human ingenuity for deception is still way ahead of our

687
00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:49,319
ability for quantum engineering.

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Speaker 1: What an incredible journey that was through all of reality's

689
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little glitches and anomalies.

690
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Speaker 2: It really was. We started with omens and time distortions

691
00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:00,799
in a kitchen, went through chemical mummification from volcanic.

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Speaker 1: Ash, and explored everything from Renaissance art history to the

693
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mind boggling energy it would take to actually teleport someone.

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Speaker 2: And I think the common thread we saw in case

695
00:33:11,240 --> 00:33:15,000
after case is this very human tendency to reach for

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00:33:15,039 --> 00:33:17,079
the most extraordinary explanation first.

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Speaker 1: Oh, absolutely, we want it to be teleportation or mirror

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worlds or ghosts.

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Speaker 2: Before we fully exhausted the logical scientific ones, whether that's

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a faulty fence or just simple pinhole optics.

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Speaker 1: And yet, what I love about this is that finding

702
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the scientific truth understanding camera obscura or the alkalinity of

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a lake, or how a video encoder fails is often

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just as thrilling as the mystery itself.

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Speaker 2: It is we're constantly learning how much is governed by

706
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,039
these complex but ultimately knowable laws of physics and chemistry.

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Speaker 1: The evidence you sent us really helps draw that sharp

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line between what's just unexplained for now and what might

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be truly unexplainable for sure.

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Speaker 2: In cases like the vanishing techtan or the upside down neighbor,

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the anomaly was rooted in our technology or environment. We

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00:33:59,480 --> 00:34:00,279
can solve those.

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Speaker 1: But other cases, like that blue flash in Houston with

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its missing time and a shadowless light, or the Bell.

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Speaker 2: Mez faces which defy chemical tests and just keep.

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Speaker 1: Coming back, those still stand firm, at least for now,

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as genuinely anomalous. They're the ones that demand a new

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kind of scientific explanation.

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Speaker 2: We've seen claims explained by everything from a badly built

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fence to alkali mud, proving that physics can often look

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a lot like magic, And that leaves us with a

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final provocative question for you, the learner, to think about.

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Speaker 1: Which of these phenomena, the blue flash, the Bell mez faces,

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or the theoretical potential of teleportation do you find the

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most difficult to fully accept as solved even after hearing

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all the analysis, And what enduring questions does that particular

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mystery raise for you about the fundamental nature of our reality.

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Speaker 2: Leave your thoughts and join the conversation on our platform.

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We can't wait to see where your own threads of

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inquiry lead