Dark Mysteries From The Depths | Volume 1

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this into a full series if you guys wanted just think of this video as something to get your feet wet as i don't typically do this anthology format but with all that being said let's just dive into the mysteries today on february 5th 1958 amidst the cold war a classified practice exercise was taking place with colonel howard richardson who was flying a plane from homestead air force base in florida whilst carrying a mark 15 atomic bomb after doing a routine bombing exercise and beginning their return a trip back to the united states around 2 am another fighter jet involved with the test ended up colliding with the b-47 mid-air this caused damage to the plane and given his locale at the time he was instructed to ditch the bomb and land at hunter air force base in georgia due to the repairs on the runway at the time it was worried that if he landed the weapon may explode upon impact here on his way back howard richardson managed to dispose of the bomb in a shallow area around tybee island off the coast of georgia and hereafter he would land the plane safely but despite this sigh of relief shortly after the search for the atomic bomb would create a new wave of concern while practice flights should not be carrying any kind of plutonium trigger to detonate the bomb it is still of concern as the bomb was believed to have been dropped so close to shore and the weapon was still carrying a large amount of conventional explosives as well as an undisclosed amount of uranium shortly after this led to a wide scale search to no results while the testimony from the pilot and every other further explanation of the weapon has stated that no nuclear trigger was present and according to official strategic air command documents regarding flights during this time there should have been no nuclear trigger on the other hand another document that was later declassified shows congressional testimony of the assistant secretary of defense w.j howard where if you actually read the document he was requested to attest to the categorized losses of a particular nuclear weapons where he categorizes the tai b incident as a complete bomb including the nuclear trigger and that it was lost in the savannah river this seems to be a completely different story on behalf of the secretary of defense and considering the bomb that was dropped on hiroshima was 15 to 16 kilotons output of tnt this bomb that apparently did not detonate on this day was a hundred times more powerful than that colonel richardson ended up getting awarded a distinguished flying cross for this particular incident because as you can imagine i had this gun differently and things could have been a hell of a lot more messy and in regards to what happened to the bomb there after that in 2001 a hydraulic survey from the department of energy claimed that it was likely buried under 5 to 15 feet of silt at the bottom of wausau sound but despite further efforts to search for it as far as the official record goes it is still a mystery in 1968 a fishing boat by the name of el fausto would meet a faint that to this day is far from understood located in tasa corte the fishing boat had numerous regular tasks while obviously used for fishing it was normal for el fausto to transport goods like fruits diesel and other goods across the canary islands the owner of the boat was a man by the name of rafael acosta who employed a crew which consisted of two brothers ramon in eliberto hernandez and their cousin miguel acosta hernandez it's worth mentioning that there was normally one other crew member aboard el fasto however he would not be present for what was about to transpire all of these men were in their 40s and they all had a lengthy career as both sailors and fishermen and where all of this came to a head was on july 20th 1968 towards the later part of the day el fasto left tasa corte and headed to el hierro around 50 miles south of la palma this was a regular trip and they had been carrying some cargo to be delivered at this destination after arriving at their destination they went about their usual duties and unloaded cargo where sometime after that they were approached by another man by the name of julio garcia who had also been working there at el hierro but he had just recently gotten a call from his wife that his daughter was ill and he wanted to make it back as soon as he possibly could to see her julio had explained to the men that he tried to catch another ride but had missed the boat and thus had asked the crew at el fausto if they would give him a ride back to tazzacorte julio desperate to get home to his child offered to pay but the crew instead offered to take him free of charge after gathering various supplies for the trip they began their seven hour trip back home this trip was made during the night and they were expected to arrive at 10 am in the morning on july 21st however something happened on this routine trip back home while the conditions included a light fog in the morning this was not typically a problem for this experienced crew but when they ultimately never showed up that day the families of the men started to worry subsequently raphael the owner of the boat had some of his employees begin searching along the route believing that they must have encountered some mechanical failure raphael theorized that he would find the men somewhere along the path however after the search turned up nothing rafael had contacted the local authorities to explain the situation and the next day a broadcast had been sent out to all the ships around the area and further search efforts were launched by air from authorities yet despite perfect conditions on the 22nd the various searches both in water and from the skies did not lead them to the boat and after a few days of searching quickly the situation had escalated from a boat lost at sea to a sunken boat as it had no reason to be anywhere else and thus halted the search efforts but the tides seemed to turn quickly on july 25th as something unexpected had occurred the duchess a british ship coming from south america towards the netherlands had spotted a small fishing boat that was seen adrift in the ocean the boat's location was 120 miles west of la palma showing that they had deviated vastly from their intended route the crew of the duchess later checked on all of the men and they were all there and all alive this was quite the relief as all of the men seemed to be in good shape although they had been sunburned hungry and very dehydrated coming to their rescue the crew members of the duchess provided food water and other supplies and had even gone as far as to offer a tow back to the island of la palma and while you might expect those men who were lost at sea to be grateful for such an offer they had insisted that their boat not be towed home instead they asked to be given extra fuel and other supplies as they wanted to make it back to tonsocorte on their own when they were asked about why they had gone missing in the first place they didn't really give an answer they were also asked if they had some issue with their vessel it all replied that nothing was out of the ordinary shortly after the families were contacted about this discovery and they were elated thereafter the duchess crew agreed to their request and sent the men off with ample supplies they were reported to have been headed back east in the correct direction given their locale it was estimated that they would make it back home at around 7pm that same night where here many people from the town had eagerly awaited their return but soon that anticipation would lead to disappointment because once again the men had mysteriously never made it back not wanting any time to go to waste the authorities once again began their search the next morning they established a new reference point for their search based on where the boat had been last seen this time dispatching multiple planes as well as the various search efforts they had done before but once again the search yielded nothing el fausto was officially lost again and things were quiet for at least a couple more months because on october 9th 1968 at around 11 in the morning an italian merchant ship by the name of ana de mayo was headed to venezuela and had spotted the boat floating off in the distance after getting close enough to decipher its call sign the merchant ship had indeed rediscovered al fausto after getting within distance to board the ship everything had appeared to be in good condition the crew had completely vanished no signs of violence were seen but they couldn't find any logs aboard the ship to try and figure out what had happened to the crew that was until he opened the hatch of the boat here a dead man was found lying on his back looking up the condition of the body was the king and he appeared to have passed away some time ago searching further for clues as to what happened the crewmen from the anna demayo found a journal with various pages ripped out some of the earlier pages contained various sets of numbers and after that 28 pages were ripped out of the journal and although the anna demayo's crew member did not speak spanish he figured this final page was a goodbye note while various other pages just seemed to be various calculations and other numbers shortly after the authorities were notified of this discovery and ana demaio had agreed to tow the boat back home with various documents that they had found and turn them into authorities but just two days after this as they were towing the boat back in the italian vessel had later reported back that while in route alfausto had sunk bow first overnight this took the body that was inside with it and hereafter the notebook along with the various documents that were retrieved were given back to the authorities as it would turn out the notebook belonged to julio the same man who had asked for a ride home back in el hiro the final pages did in fact contain a goodbye note and gave specific instructions to his wife on how to claim all the funds owed to her as well as instructions for selling his properties among other duties so she would have money after his passing the final pages indicated to not tell their son what had happened to him but obviously the mystery here in this situation is the lacking bit of context given that 28 pages were ripped out of this journal this statement could mean a number of things not only that no reference to any kind of violence on the ship and no clues as to what happened to the rest of the crew was ever found moreover the question stands as well why they refused to be towed back and a reluctance to give an explanation seems to indicate some other kind of objective while theories have ranged far and wide on this case including the men witnessing something they shouldn't have at sea being involved in some kind of illegal activity what doesn't seem to fit was the fact that these blue collar family men with no criminal past didn't seemingly have any reason to randomly turn to crime and while you might suspect some suspicious backstory from julio as he was the only variable for this particular trip it's worth mentioning that it was later confirmed his daughter was indeed ill at this time however i find it suspicious that if he was in such a rush to get home then why after a three-day delay would they say that everything was fine and while some people have suggested the effects of the sea may have caused him to act irrationally i suppose julio is still rational enough to write thoroughly detailed instructions regarding his passing and while i've seen some people critique the journal as a red herring as this particular notebook was used for business transactions as well as other to-do lists meaning that it would not be too uncommon for pages to be ripped out however it's rather odd that in the final note julio stated not to tell her son what happened to him this is odd because she would presumably not know either given how complex this case is there's a lot of room for interpretation some people have theorized that some of the initial boats have lied some people theorized they were leaving the country others have theorized that the italian boat may have learned the full details of what had happened in that journal as they seemed to understand the end of the book but wanted to simply spare the family the details but that being said there's definitely a lot of room for interpretation on this roller coaster of a story but as it stands today the true fate of el fausto remains unsolved [Music] now when it comes to the company dhl many of you have probably not heard its backstory as i'm probably guessing the company has done their best to gloss over the details regarding their founder dhl as an acronym stands for the three initials of the men who founded the company where the h was the main person responsible that being a man by the name of larry hilbloom a man that had some very jeffrey epstein-like tendencies he set up his headquarters in the small island of saipan a tax haven that while still technically a us territory did not have the reach of the irs here he began using his massive amounts of wealth after his success with dhl to treat this area like his own personal playground he owned the island's bank he owned the island's phone company he owned the island's cable company he owned many of the restaurants there as well as the newspaper there and he served as a seat on the supreme court as a special judge this was the jurisdiction of the commonwealth of the northern mariana islands where he was heavily involved with lobbying and he also became a diplomat on behalf of the cnmi to vietnam and when he wasn't busy working he was busy being a gross predator apparently this was a very open secret that the guy had a thing for very very young girls and despite his live-in girlfriend being 16 when he met her nobody seems to have ever said anything and not only that hellboom would reportedly pillage the underage girls in the local area and keep other women on his payroll in other places like manila where he would have them find young girls for him on his behalf now with that being said it's worth questioning what actually happened to hellbloom later on on may 21 1995 hillbloom would disappear on a regular flight from saipan to pagan the weather was reportedly cloudy so they were unable to land the plane and as a result they had decided to turn back around on his way back he made a call to his girlfriend asking him to pick him up at the airport whatever caused the plane to go down to the ocean this point after is a complete mystery and whatever caused this to happen it caused it to happen very quickly because no sos signal was ever sent from the flight along with no flight recorders as this was an older plane hilbum was at first misidentified for the pilot and reported as dead but as it would turn out he was the only body that was never recovered from this plane crash now assuming this plane crash did in fact do him in this was quite interesting as in 1993 just two years prior he had survived another plane crash the injuries were apparently so significant that it prompted him to get facial reconstructive surgery where he was noted to look vastly different sometime after hillboom's presumed to death a dhl executive was reported to have visited his residence and disposed of his computer where he later instructed that same living girlfriend to hide all of his personal belongings his house hereafter was noted to have been scrubbed clean of all dna with muriatic acid poured down the drains and inside the house not a single personal belonging of hellblooms could be found and this was rather convenient because soon after more and more women had began to come forward telling the truth about what they had experienced with larry hillbloom where many women had claimed that larry had been the father to their child however with helbling's body never recovered and with nobody able to get dna from his residence it was impossible to prove this in a court of law via a paternity test after a long and extensive legal battle between the estate and some of the children the judge ended up forcing some of hillboom's relatives to take a dna test this led to four out of the eight alleged children settling out of court for around 90 million each continuing on however what is worth considering before larry's disappearance were the suspicious events that led up to it in late 1993 he ended up getting audited by the mariana islands auditors had found a capital gain of around 226 million in a single transaction as well as other various unreported income over multiple years he was apparently facing a tax bill of around 97 million if he stayed in saipan also in the early 1990s he had begun funneling money into vietnam which at this time was illegal as there was a trade embargo for u.s citizens from the vietnam war where he was reported to have invested a hundred plus million there larry used his role as a diplomat to vietnam through the cnmi to build close ties with their government the money from these investments were meant to restore various resorts across the country where larry was noted to have used these hotels for his personal reasons and later on the u.s state department had begun inquiring into his activities in vietnam where he reportedly told the us government to f off and just several weeks before his disappearance one of the main hotels that he'd invested in had its grand opening this has led to some speculation that larry hillbloom did not pass away in that plane crash and in fact had simply faked his death in order to move on to a second life in vietnam however i must say there are a lot of unknowns to the story for one we have no idea how much hobloom was actually worth the guy was notorious for making any kind of paper trail next to impossible to find the guy and only he fully knew the wealth of his estate he often got front men to do his bidding and to explain what i'm talking about during the legal battle for his estate a trail of papers had ended up leading back to one of his close friends or his friend had been a sole owner to a corporation that held a several million dollar apartment complex in saipan when this was found out the guy had no idea and was never managing it and ended up handing the apartment complex back to the estate the only proof of this guy being on that plane that day comes from his live-in girlfriend who was the same one who was later disposing of his personal belongings and hiding evidence and that destroyed computer from the dhl exec puts even more details in the dark the third mystery here is what time the plane actually had crashed as the search efforts had only begun the day after with only about a fourth of the plane ever being recovered there's no way to know what actually caused the crash and what i found to be incredibly puzzling regarding this guy's case is just how difficult it is to find any info on him the only documentary on the sky has been purged from the web and the only book detailing his life writes it under the pretense is that he's dead because in one of the opening sections he writes for efficiency's sake i must assume that hillbloom is actually dead and not basking beneath a southeast asian sun somewhere surrounded by nubile young women pineapples and a vietnamese coffee as many still believe including agents of the internal revenue service and the us department of state i must disregard the former governor of guam who claimed to have seen hillbloom recently on a trip to thailand as well as an mia organization that may or may not possess physical proof of hillbloom living in that country hillbloom's estate chose not to verify the latter despite paying out nearly 200 million dollars to law firms of which millions have been spent chasing less credible rumors while i will note that the remainder of heblam's estate was apparently around a conservative 600 million by the time all the legal processes were over and the remainder was donated to medical research however that's not to say that everything was fully accounted for as trying to figure out the full net worth of a secretive billionaire puppet master who founded a globally present company and spent the majority of his life hiding money away from the irs is just as difficult as now finding any evidence of hillbloom at the bottom of the ocean this is barely sociable have a good night [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Fri Jun 11 2021