Speaker 1: Hey, guys, welcome to episode twenty one of Wickedly Weird
with Jerry and Amanda. I am Carlos.
Speaker 2: Oh Carlos, Carlos. I'm Amanda. Nice to meet, Oh so
born Carlos. I mean like I could have been Regina
or something.
Speaker 1: But yeah, something at least sounded like it went with Carlos.
That's all Carlos, because that's actually the subject of our
show tonight.
Speaker 2: Wow. So is there a murder of.
Speaker 1: No? No, actually no, but so quickly anything exciting happened
to you this week?
Speaker 3: No, I didn't roll Morgan into some skating lessons. And
I mean the people they are fun. They're a fun crowd,
I guess. And you just meet strangers that tell you
the whole life story and in like a two hour span,
which is fine.
Speaker 2: I don't mind.
Speaker 1: It's just you know, you're you're literally that person.
Speaker 2: Sometimes depends it depends on the person. I guess. I
just had a friendly face that day.
Speaker 3: The lady was really nice and her kids cute, so
they're a nice little family. So she's making friends, which
is what I really want outside of school, you know what,
I mean, someone to bump around with.
Speaker 1: So is the ice ice skating skating.
Speaker 3: I can't get her on ice skates yet. She's a
little hesitant, so I don't know. I want to, but
she's very like, I don't know if I want to
be cold for two hours, and I'm like, I don't.
I don't think you're gonna be cold if you're moving around,
but you're not.
Speaker 1: I took my daughter ice skating one time, her and
some friends for a party, and uh, yeah, I didn't
care much for the cold part of just you know,
I've never been on ice skates in my life.
Speaker 3: I have once, and it just like was not for me.
I just didn't like it. I wasn't wasn't my favorite.
I didn't like it. I have absolutely no balance at
all whatsoever. So they make me nervous. Plus they're like
murder They're like murder feet if you get hurt. Yeah,
I like murder feet. You don't know what's gonna happen.
So I'm okay with her not wanting to do that
right now. But yeah, Wednesday's a busy for me now.
And I went to this really cool pop up Christmas
pop up thing. I don't know if you saw it
on Facebook or not, but it was really cool.
Speaker 2: We went.
Speaker 1: I did. I wouldn't sure what it was, but yeah.
Speaker 2: It was so cool. It's called the Christmas pop Up.
I don't know.
Speaker 3: It was really cool. It's till January thirty. First, you
want to where do we go? We went to some
restaurant Weymouth, pretty nice, nice.
Speaker 1: Well, I had some cool stuff happen. We'll talk about
it after the story. But I made a trip to
Florida and twelve hours up, twelve hours back, and it
was one disaster after another. So I'll tell you about
that afterwards. So, Amanda, the story that we're doing tonight
is literally the stuff that nightmares are made of. No, no,
it's not. Apparently you have a different nightmare than after that.
So we're going to Venezuela, September sixth, two thousand and seven.
So let me set the scene for you. Carlos Camejo.
He had went out for a ride on his motorcycle.
It's hot day. He'd been driving on on some windy
roads in a little town called La Victoria. He lost
control of his bike and he crashed. Oh now, well,
the next thing he remembers was waking up. But this
was not your normal wake up, and uh that you're
probably something.
Speaker 2: Was he blued? Shut? Well, they can take a kidney.
Speaker 1: He's wrong with you.
Speaker 2: I don't listen. I listened to a lot of murder.
Speaker 1: I know you do. So anyways, he's more, let's say,
consciously awake than physically awake. And what I mean by
that is he was awake, but he was basically completely paralyzed.
Speaker 2: Was he Wait?
Speaker 3: Was he like mummy like? Was he like mummy dusted?
Was he mummy dusted?
Speaker 1: What the hell does mummy dusted mean? No?
Speaker 2: Yeah, what it is?
Speaker 3: We talked about it a couple episodes ago in the
Powder and they blow stuff at you, oh, like like.
Speaker 1: The zombies and stuff like that sort of thing. No, no,
it's not what it was. So he couldn't move in
any way, shape or form. He couldn't even open his eyes,
but he was completely aware of everything going on. As
you could imagine, he starts to panic. Well, yeah, he
tried to calm himself down. But you know, all he
could do was think, think to hisself. His brain was working,
so that's what he tried to use as a way
to calm himself down. At least I can think.
Speaker 3: Wait, wait, this is one of these cases where he
might be, but he's really not. They're about to interject
them with him, like in bombing Fluid.
Speaker 2: Is it one of those stories.
Speaker 1: You watch too much TV?
Speaker 2: Okay, well, I mean, but.
Speaker 1: You're closer than but you're close.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: He's trying to find a solution, right, So Carlos starts
rocking his brain trying to figure out what exactly had happened,
because at this point he don't remember the wreck at all.
He just knows he was riding his bike and now
he's waking.
Speaker 2: Out in the hospital.
Speaker 1: I'm assuming he's in a lot of pain at this point,
didn't exactly remember anything that had happened, so he don't
know why he's in pain. He could hear what was
going on around him, but he was completely in the
dark because he couldn't open his eyes. All he knew
was he was freezing cold, and you know, obviously that's
not normal for being in Venezuela. It's warm there all
the time.
Speaker 2: No wait, hold on, okay, I think I know the story,
but go ahead.
Speaker 1: He remembers his friend asking him to go out on
his bike ride, and you know, this used to be
Carlos's favorite pastime, but it was harder to kind of
make the time now that he was, you know, had
a had a good paying job, was working a lot,
he had gotten married, you know. It just yeah, it
wasn't something he could do. He was he was thirty
thirty three years old, and he decided, you know what,
the weather's good. It's too perfect to miss out on
going out with a bike.
Speaker 2: Rad for my reasonable person would think that, okay, you.
Speaker 1: Would think so. Carlos starts going through the trip step
by step. He remembers a long straight away and then
a right turn and nothing after the turn. Carlos now
just knows he can't move, but he could feel. So
that's kind of odd to be paralyzed, but to still
be able to feel. Oh no, he felt some type
of a block underneath his his back, in between his
shoulder blades. He said it was it was as if
if it was kind of proper him up. He also
could feel his arms dangling to the side. Oh, just
hang him.
Speaker 2: Growth.
Speaker 1: It was a very uncomfortable position. So at this point,
Carlos could hear some people off in a distance talking.
He couldn't quite make out what was being said, but
he knew that there were some people that was somewhat close,
so he starts to get excited because it appears that
help was on the way. Well, soon the voices moved
closer to Carlos, and one of these people had gotten
extremely close to him. Carlos felt something metallic press up
against his chin. Couldn't tell exactly what it was, but
it was sharp and it hurt whenever it touched his chin.
So Carlos was trying so hard to scream, but nothing
would come out.
Speaker 2: Oh that's horrible.
Speaker 1: Then Carlos heard the sound of what appeared to be
some type of a saw. Oh no, again, his mind
went into panic mode. Carlos wondered what in the hell
was going on? And my guess is probably mortified because
you know, I think we were all that he.
Speaker 3: Was going to get chopped up into tiny Oh God,
there need to be a warning on this one.
Speaker 1: No, I'll tell you what happens though, After a quick
sponsor Parson all right, Amanda. So that the next thing
that Carlos hears is one of the men that are
in the room with him saying, well, that's impossible, that
can't be. Carlos felt some more pain in the chin area.
The pain then really stepped up by several levels. It
went from a stabbing type feeling in one spot to
more of a slicing and cutting sensation across his throat area.
Oh my god, whatever it was, he felt it go
out of his chin.
Speaker 2: This whatever the mean like, he's like shot, like a
starring action.
Speaker 1: He could feel anything.
Speaker 2: They're cutting him up. They don't even know he's dead yet,
or he's not dead.
Speaker 1: Sorry again, Carlos can't tell anybody to stop, and he
can't scream, He can't say anything. He then felt another
stabbing pain, and then the pain became unbearable.
Speaker 2: No, no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Carlos somehow was able to shake the paralysis and his
eyes popped open. All Carlos could see was a blinding light.
Then things slowly started to come in the focus. There
were two men standing right in front of him. They
were wearing scrubs, goggles and face masks.
Speaker 2: Oh.
Speaker 1: One of them was holding a big needle with black thread.
Speaker 2: Wow, and that.
Speaker 1: Thread was coming from Carlos's chin. Oh my god, that's
what Carlos had been feeling. They had been putting stitches
in his chin, but with no anesthesia.
Speaker 2: Why why would you do that?
Speaker 1: As Carlos stared up at these people. They became horrified,
They freaked out, and they started backing up. Carlos was
just as confused as they were. He was able to
shed more of the paralysis and he lifted his head
up enough to look down at his body. That's where
he realized he was totally nude on a metal table.
He had a why drawn on his chest that started
at his collarbone and went straight down his chest. Okay,
Carlos looked down at at his chest and his sides,
and over to his left he saw a circular saw
sitting on a trade table. When it dawned on him,
that is the saw that he had heard a little
bit earlier. At this point it clicked to Carlos. He
remembered hitting a truck while he was riding his bike
and getting thrown some distance. What he didn't know is
that he was listed as dead by the ambulance EMT.
Speaker 2: But wouldn't he I don't understand, I don't know.
Speaker 1: He was then taken to the morgue. Carlos was in
the process of his autopsy when he gained consciousness, and
that's why there was a block underneath his shoulder blades.
And that's why there was a y drawn on his chest.
Speaker 2: Did they did they get it? Did they? Did they
get in there?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: So they stopped once. At least they didn't get fired.
It was just from the they were working the neck down.
Speaker 2: I'm guessing.
Speaker 1: Well, remember when we said the doctor said this can't
be yes, because Carlos was actively bleeding from his chin
and that shouldn't happen if you're dead and it's not pumping,
you shouldn't be bleeding actively bleeding.
Speaker 3: Nobody nobody thought hmm, I should say, that's why they
stopped him thinking right, Like they weren't like, oh.
Speaker 1: It is Venezuela. I can't say that they're going to
be as medically able as what some other countries could be. M.
They had cut his face open, and once it started bleeding,
they tried to sew it back to stop the bleeding.
So get this. After discovering he was alive, he was
pushed out into the hallway, where he stayed for a
very long time. They then they didn't stuck the order
for the Uh. Well, they took the order for the autopsy. Yeah,
and they stuck it in his pocket for everybody to see.
Uh that they were just following orders, you know, because
you wouldn't want check to see if somebody's actually dead.
Speaker 2: Just oh wait, he was so cold because he was
in a freezer.
Speaker 1: Yes, or he was completely naked in a cold room.
I don't they don't have those rooms are probably pretty
cold to keep the smile.
Speaker 2: Down whatever, but like still, oh my god.
Speaker 1: Eventually Carlos's wife came to the morgue and she found
him in the hallway, and uh, Carlos had these horrible
injuries from the wreck, but he did actually go on
to make a full recovery.
Speaker 2: He could he sue anyone for that? I mean, that's
real big, that's part.
Speaker 1: I didn't get all the details, but yes, I'm pretty
sure that he sued.
Speaker 3: Could you imagine that all like then kind of and
and you go to die on the way there like
what like so so sorry, good sir.
Speaker 1: I just can't imagine waking up out and you can't
open your eyes, but you can feel all.
Speaker 2: That pain everything, and you can't see.
Speaker 3: So it's like one of those sauce situations like you
can hear it. Oh no, I think that night that
is nightmare fuel. You're right here, I am thinking bugs
this is way bigger than bugs.
Speaker 1: I mean, what if? What if? I wonder how much
longer it would have been before they would have torn
into his chest if they acted like they probably. I
think if the chin hadn't started bleeding, they probably would
have already been there.
Speaker 2: Hm.
Speaker 3: Or if they were, but wouldn't if they went to
cut into him, wouldn't he be like joshing blood through
his chest?
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean? Like told be a trigger,
like please don't do that. Oh that makes me scared
a little bit, like.
Speaker 1: His wife was. Probably if it was anything like my wife,
she's probably out in the hallway.
Speaker 2: I'm told you have to go buy gridding? Didn't I
tell you have to go buy gradd and it's what happened?
Speaker 1: You don't listen to me. He's probably getting a lecture
in the hallway.
Speaker 3: Meanwhile, he's got like an instead, his face is happening,
His face is flopping off of his body. He's just like, sorry, man, sorry,
I inconvenienced your day. What a string of emotion like
you get told your husband's dead. That's devastating news. You
have this like young family, and then he's really not.
That's that's a that's an emotional rollercoaster.
Speaker 1: Especially if he had like a huge life insurance policy.
And she was kind of excited for a little bit
and then she oh's.
Speaker 2: Oh he's a lot that's terrible.
Speaker 1: She was like for ten minutes, I was a millionaire.
Speaker 2: Oh my god. He flew so kind of truck.
Speaker 1: I mean, geez, I don't know, but he was going
around a corner and I guess he ran into a
truck but it knocked him. I know it said. It
knocked him like several feet and he was like off
the road, like on the side of a mountain, not
really a true mountain, but you know how it's rough
to rund.
Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, that's very scary that story. I'm gonna probably
ever dream about that tonight. That's great.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine. See, I've ever been a motorcycle guy.
I don't. I don't care that somebody else is, but
I just don't like the fact that there is nothing
around you. If you get hit or fall, you have
zero to protect them.
Speaker 3: Well, a couple of years ago, maybe a while ago,
in New Hampshire, I don't know if you heard about
that accident, but there was like a group of motorcyclists
and like a huge I think it was like a
trailer essentially cut out in front of them and killed
like five of them all at once. Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, oh, there's nothing in between you and that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, there was a group of like they were motorcyclists,
like traveling together and they all, like I think five
of them passed away. But my mom rides on the
back of my stepdad's motorcycle and I hate it.
Speaker 2: I hate it so much.
Speaker 3: Like it freaks me out because I'm just like, you're
going on the highway, you're you know what I mean.
And they don't go on long, long drives or anything,
but they do go to the New Hampshire area.
Speaker 2: They do go to Vermont and they do scenic bike rides.
Speaker 3: But it's kind of like, ooh, I don't know. I
don't like motorcycles at all. I mean, if you drive one,
more power to you. I love that, but like, I
just don't for me personally, I just don't like them.
Speaker 2: I find them to be very dangerous.
Speaker 1: I know some of the roads, you know, Like I
was just telling you, we were we were on a
long drive and I couldn't help, but some of these
roads were so bad. I'm like I couldn't imagine riding
a motorcycle on desk. It's just it just seems like
it would be so easy to lose control on some
of these.
Speaker 3: Road Thing about it, like wet leaves are kind of
like ice. Sand is almost like ice, So you like,
if you hit that the wrong way, you're sliding.
Speaker 2: There's no stop in you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's crazy.
Speaker 2: Oh no, thank you.
Speaker 1: So let me tell you what what happened to me?
Speaker 2: What happened to you?
Speaker 1: Tell So, we buy the house in Florida, Okay, we
are you know this. We bought a manufactured home in
a retirement or fifty five plus, I say retirement. It's
it's age restrict It's not exactly the same. Like what
I'm saying. It's not exactly a retirement place. You know,
you you don't have to be retired to live there.
I'm just saying it's an age restrictor. So there's not
kids living back there. Yeah, we buy the house. But
when you buy a house like that, it's not like
buying a regular home. It's more like almost like buying
a car. So it's not like you don't go out
and have all the inspections done and all this, and
we were there for a very short time when we
picked the place out. So we get there, we spent
the night. I spent the night one night last week.
But this is the first time Tracy and I spent
any real time there. She didn't come the last time
she comes. We spent one day. On the way up there,
we had something in the road that a truck ran over.
It popped up in the air and it hit our car,
and uh we was like, oh wow, you know, no,
you know, no big deal, it hit it, but you know, woo.
We escaped. We get to the place and the next
morning I'm walking up and there was a huge hole
in the grill. It's got that. We have a Hyundai
Santa Fe. It's got like this, it's got this honeycomb grill,
you know. But there's a huge hole out of it.
And what happened. It was a coupling from a PBC
you know, the Y section, our T section. Yeah, yeah,
it was big and that's what it was. And it
had went through the grill and was still sitting in there.
I'm glad it didn't do any damage to the radiator
because it was sitting right up against the radiator. So
there's something that we'll have to fix on this trick
on this trip.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Florida.
Speaker 1: Then we get there and we were getting our cable
and internet hooked up. So we had one whole day
there the time before. I literally got up at four
o'clock in the morning, got there at seven at night,
unloaded some boxes, hooked some stuff up, went to bed
at nine, got right back up at five, and left again.
So I didn't even see the place in daylight. Yeah,
because it's dark when I got there, dark when I left. Well,
this time, we actually got there, you know, six seven o'clock,
and we were staying the whole next day. So I
get up and there's no hot water. I can't on
the hot water heater anywhere. I've looked everywhere. Well, I
got the maintenance person to come over. I already flipped
the switch, uh, the the circuit breaker. Yeah, they come over.
They find it, but it took them three different times
because they couldn't find it either. It was hidden in
a wall in the closet. You had to take a
panel off to get to it. Yes, and uh so
it took three different trips for the maintenance person to
find it. And then they couldn't figure out what was wrong.
Reset button on it wouldn't work, so they said, well,
we'll call it, we'll call the plumber out, we'll get
it fixed. So I'm like, we were wanting to go
out and do stuff for the day and that looks
like we're gonna be waiting all day for a plumber. Well,
they sent us a message at the end of the
day that said the house is an under warranty, so
you're gonna have to call the plumber yourself. It's not
it's not on us, And I guess technically they're right,
but it's kind of a shitty way to do somebody.
When you sell somebody, you like you're you tell somebody.
So this isn't something cheap. This was This is something
that's only three years old. This is a two thousand
and twenty. We gave eighty thousand dollars for this, or
seventy thousands. We gave seventy thousand dollars for this, and
we're paying this place a nice sum of money every
month to be in that park. I would have been
And they're just like, oh, well, that's on you, and
I was like nope. I was like, we literally just
moved in. Shouldn't you have told me if it was out?
And you told me in the beginning, Hey, you're going
to replace hot water heater, that's one thing, right, But
they literally spent a couple of hours looking for this
thing and messing with it all to come back and say, hey,
not our problem. So I left them. I sent them
a nasty email because they didn't even call me to
tell me that. They sent me an email saying and
it was late in the day. So I sent them
something back that was just basically saying, you know, shouldn't
you have a advised to me or made me aware
that that didn't work?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: I don't.
Speaker 2: I hope you didn't. You don't think you made like
a mistake, right?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 3: No, no, okay, it's not like because I was going
to say, like, what the fuck.
Speaker 1: The electric water heater and the elements out, that's what
it is. It's yeah, and it's something that's gonna cost
a couple hundred bucks to get fixed. But it's just
the point that should be on me. I also didn't
check the water when I was there looking at the
place to I mean, I guess you, I guess you
should be checking everything out I guess we didn't, you know,
But I just I made the mistake of assuming that
the hot water was going to work.
Speaker 2: They say, he makes an ass out of me and
an ass out of you. Is something like how that goes? Yeah,
but like why would you think of that? Do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like, I feel like I would never have even like
it wouldn't dawn on me to be like, oh yeah,
because it's a new and it didn't.
Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I'm looking at the important stuff. What
I didn't do? You know, I've made you. I flushed
the toilet, I made sure that worked. Yeah, you know,
I turned the water on to make sure there was water,
but I didn't bother to see if the water got hot.
Speaker 3: But but I mean, at the end of the day,
it's not you wouldn't think too because it's not like
a ten year old home.
Speaker 2: It's like three years old. So that why would you I.
Speaker 1: Feel like, yeah, how a water heater should last you
several years? Yeah, not an e going out.
Speaker 2: Yeah that's a little odd.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm still giving out, giving up a little bit
of hope. Of course, it was Friday, right before they
closed when I sent that email, so I was hoping
to actually get an email back from the to day,
but nothing get in.
Speaker 2: Now do you think you will?
Speaker 1: No, if they didn't do it today, they're not going
to do it.
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe they just haven't gotten around to it. I mean,
I know it's for us. For me, it's twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see. I'm going back out Thursday. But it's
gonna be another one of those drive out, drop stuff off,
drive right back, so I wouldn't even have to uh,
the twenty first of January twenty second today, about two weeks.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: First, by the time this comes out, it's gonna be
the end of February or middle of February. I think
this comes out on Valentine's Day or something. Oh heavy
Valentine's Day, folks. So all right, guys, I guess that
wraps up this one.
Speaker 2: Yes it does. I will talk to you guys next week. Bye,