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place until all the oil has been sucked up in that area the people who work often for weeks or months at a time on rigs like magellan are known as roughnecks and they have one of if not the most dangerous job in the world all exterior surfaces on these offshore rigs are always slick either with water or oil and so there is a constant risk of falling sometimes hundreds of feet if you're up on a higher platform you could fall to a lower platform which could be fatal or you could fall clean off the rig all the way to the ocean 100 plus feet below if you add in some bad windy weather the risk of falling increases tenfold also the crude oil that these roughnecks are drilling for is highly combustible and so fires are a huge concern as well and if that wasn't risky enough there's also this phenomenon known as a blowout where basically the oil well that the drill is actually drilling into will just explode now all rigs have some sort of mitigating equipment to try to save themselves in case this occurs but in reality if it happens and you are unfortunately near the drill when it happens you are likely to be killed or maimed while the downsides of working on an oil rig are fairly obvious the upsides are too namely your pay is fantastic in 2000 a 41 year old father of two named gorden moffett was a roughneck working on the magellan his primary job was to perform maintenance on the drill now these offshore rigs work great most of the time but they do have a habit of breaking down fairly often and for a drilling company anytime they are not sucking out crude oil they're losing money and so it was just a known thing when you worked on one of these rigs that as soon as there is an issue that causes the drill to stop working it must be fixed immediately whether it's day night horrible weather good weather it didn't matter it had to be fixed right away and so on the night of october 9th that year gordon had just gotten back to his quarters to end the day when he got a call on his radio that he was actually needed to come back out to fix a problem that had stopped the drill now gordon was a seasoned roughneck and he had grown quite accustomed to these late night calls to go out and fix things and so he wasn't annoyed he just put his stuff back on turned around and he headed out the door when gordon got to the main deck which is this wide open metal platform right in the middle of the rig where the drill actually passes down through it on its way to the ocean when he got to the main deck he was met by some of his co-workers who told him where he would need to go the cabling that needed fixing was located right below the main deck however it was not accessible from the main deck in order for gordon to get to it he would need to go down to the next lowest platform from the main deck basically he would need to hop in an elevator and go down one floor and from this lower deck the crew on the main deck would lower down a harness attached to a long wire they would feed it down through this hole in the main deck platform called a mouse hole it was about 10 inches across and they would feed it down and he would grab the harness he would put it on and then he would signal up to the main deck crew who could literally see him through this mouse hole they would turn around and they would signal somebody called the hoist operator and they were located above the main deck slightly back they couldn't actually see gordon so they're relying on communications with the people on the main deck and the hoist operator would start their winch and a winch basically reels in the wire that was connected to the harness that was on gordon and so once the hoist operator was informed he'd turn on the winch and then gordon would be raised up until he could access these cables and then he'd do his maintenance and be lowered back down and that would be it now gordon and the crew had done maintenance using this winch system many times before so this was a very routine fix so gordon made his way from the main deck down to the slightly lower deck and he looked up at the mouse hole and he watched as the main deck crew members lowered the harness with the wire attached to it down through the mouse hole and so gordon grabbed the harness he put it around his waist and he secured it and after he was sure it was on correctly he signaled up to the crew on the main deck that he was ready to start and they in turn turned around they flagged the hoist operator who started the winch and so very slowly gordon was lifted off the platform he was standing on and he was brought up after several minutes all the way up about 10 feet to access these cables and as soon as he was parallel with them he waved to the main deck crew who were not far from him at this point and he said i'm good and so they turned around they told the hoist operator who stopped the winch and so gordon got his tools out and he began working on these cables and the whole time he's trying to stay in one place because the wind is whipping through and he's kind of dangling and swinging around and then eventually he finishes the repair the cables are good and so he signals the crew on the main deck through the mouse hole that he was good to go you can lower me back down now and so the main deck crew they turn they wave to the hoist operator to go ahead and lower gordon and the hoist operator he gives the thumbs up and he starts the winch however the hoist operator accidentally forgot to switch the direction of the winch and so when he started it again instead of the winch spooling the wire out and lowering gordon it continued to reel the wire in pulling gordon upward now the winch did not move very quickly and so it wasn't like gordon is rocketing up towards the mouse hole however this problem was immediately recognized by gordon and the main deck crew and so they're frustrated they're yelling up at the hoist operator saying stop stop stop reverse the winch they're all waving and flagging this guy down but the hoist operator after he had hit start on the winch had just kind of turned around because this is a routine thing they've done a million times before and so he's not looking at the crew on the main deck so he has no idea what's going on and it was so windy and loud that night on board the rig that he couldn't hear their cries and so the winch just continued to reel in the wire slowly raising gordon closer and closer to the mouse hole now gordon could not get out of his harness unless he was on the platform below so there was no way to escape the situation he was in and so gordon after a few seconds of this not stopping and him continuing upward he starts screaming he's not annoyed anymore he's terrified and so is the crew on the main deck they are now frantically screaming at the hoist operator to stop the winch but nothing is working and so one of the main deck crew members sensing that they need to do something different to get this guy's attention he runs away from where the mouse hole is to this nearby phone and this phone is connected up to the hoist operator station and he picks it up and it starts dialing up in the hoist operator station he's still not paying attention when the phone rings he grabs the phone puts it to his ear and immediately he's hit with screams to stop the winch and so the hoist operator totally confused whips around and hit stop on the winch but it was too late just a few moments earlier gordon had finally been pulled all the way up right to the entrance of the underside of this mouse hole and as he reached this hole he tried to position himself in a vertical position so that maybe he could slip his upper body into the hole and he could just kind of slide through the hole he'd still be hurt by it but it would limit the damage however because of his harness being on his waist right in front of him he couldn't get himself into a vertical position he could only lay back in a horizontal one and so when he reached the underside of the main deck and he's looking right at this mouse hole he just put his arms and his legs out and tried to push himself back as if he could fight the winch and keep himself from going into this hole but there was nothing he could do and so his pelvis first was pulled into the ten inch hole and as his body begins to literally break in half he's screaming out in pain and then by the time the hoist operator had hit stop gordon was already deceased and only a section of his torso actually made it up through the hole gordon's company was found guilty of being blatantly delinquent on many safety protocols and so they were fined 60 000 pounds and then they paid an undisclosed amount to gordon's family before we get into our next story i want to talk about today's sponsor current current is the future of money management it's done entirely on your phone and with a debit card here's mine but what they announced just last month is why they're so popular right now they 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was called tamiku and so as a result of his proximity to it he had spent a lot of time in these woods over the years but in general his exposure to this forest was just on the fringes he would only look for firewood along the perimeter of the woods but for whatever reason that day he was just really having a hard time finding good firewood and so at some point he decided to just walk deeper into the woods to see if he would have luck in there and so he turns and starts walking into the forest and very quickly when the town has kind of disappeared from view behind him he looked around and kind of liked being in the woods he didn't go for walks in the woods and suddenly he was on this nice nature walk and so he decided you know what i can wait on the firewood i'll just walk in the forest for a little while longer and enjoy myself and kind of meditate so he just continued walking deeper and deeper into the woods and after walking for nearly an hour just kind of mindlessly walking about he sees up ahead there is very clearly a clearing and then before the clearing is what looks like a chain-link fence now he's never been this deep into the woods before so he has no idea what this is but he's obviously curious and so he decides he'll go see what it is and so he continues walking closer and closer to what obviously is a chain-link fence and as he's getting closer to it the trees around him are beginning to thin out and suddenly before he even reaches the fence he gets a very clear view of what's on the other side and it's this huge multi-story building that almost looks like a factory or some sort of government facility and it's sitting maybe a couple hundred feet away from the fence right in the middle of this property and there's really nothing around it it's just this cleared out big open area with this big building right in the middle and there's a fence all the way around it and so ivan is totally intrigued by this and so he walks right up to the fence he grabs on to it and he tries to look and figure out what this building is but there's no clear signage on it and there's no people anywhere it's completely barren there's nothing but this building and then he notices there's obviously graffiti on the sides of this building and the doors and windows appeared to be boarded up and so this building whatever it is is clearly abandoned and the first thought that goes through ivan's head is scrap metal times were tough for ivan and his family and so he and his two brothers they all lived together they would go out and they would steal scrap metal and sell it for a little bit of extra cash to make ends meet and provide for their big family and so he's looking at this big building thinking you know if i can get in there i guarantee you there is some metal that i can steal and i can sell and so ivan stayed at this fence just kind of staring at this building for a little while longer and continued to look around to make sure there weren't any people that he hadn't seen before and after feeling satisfied that this really was a totally abandoned building he turned around and began hustling back towards town and when he finally made it to town making sure to grab some firewood along the way he rounded up his two brothers and he told them about this find in the forest and they all very excitedly agreed that that night they would go right back out there and they would go inside the building and see what they could find and so around 9 00 pm that night the brothers met up and they had flashlights and a set of bolt cutters and they headed into the nearby forest and they marched their way all the way up to this fence that ivan had found earlier in the day and they lifted their flashlights up and they scanned through the fence all over the property and when they didn't see anyone they put their flashlights down and one by one they climbed up and over this fence and then once they were all on the other side they began making their way up to this huge building sitting in the middle of the property and when they got up to this building they confirmed it definitely looked like it was abandoned except all of the doors and windows were sealed in such a way that even with bolt cutters there was just no way to pry them open they were not going to get inside this building and so after a little while of still trying to kind of smash their way into this building the brothers all linked up and they decided you know what we're not getting in and the longer we stay here the better the chances are that we get caught and so let's just head back and so feeling totally dejected they turn and they start walking back towards the fence they hopped in on and as they're walking along they're kind of shining their lights left and right and looking around and off to the far right side of the property there is this small shack that they had not noticed on their way in and so the brothers look at each other and they're like hey you know we're already on this side of the fence we might as well go check it out and see what's inside of it maybe there's scrap metal in there and so the brothers turn and start making their way over to the shed and when they get there they discover it's only secured with a simple padlock on a wooden door and so they get their bolt cutters they pop off the lock they open up the door and there's initially nothing inside at least that's what they think but they move something on the ground and it reveals this stairwell that leads into this underground bunker and now it's the middle of the night on this abandoned property they've snuck into and so there's some apprehension but they shine their lights down the steps and they didn't see any immediate hazards and they're thinking you know what this is an adventure let's go down and see what's down there and so they all went down the steps and when they got down to the bottom they turn the corner and they shine their light to see what's down here and what was down there was this huge cellar that was full of scrap metal there was metal all over the ground and then there were also these shelves that went as far back as their lights could shine and on the lower shelves there were these weird square metal boxes that almost looked like briefcases and then above those on the top shelf were 55 gallon aluminum drums and in the brothers experience these drums were very very valuable except they needed to make sure they weren't full of some liquid because if they're full they weigh like 500 pounds and there's no way they'd be able to get them out and then trying to open them up and spill whatever's inside of them is hazardous for a lot of reasons and so they walked over to the first 55 gallon drum they saw and they pushed it to see if it was empty and the drum immediately rocked back and forth echoing inside indicating that it was empty this was a huge huge win and so the brothers are totally amazed they grab this first drum they pull it off the shelf and they wheel it over to the base of the steps and then they go back to get another drum off the shelf and they reach up they grab another empty drum and as they're pulling it off it dislodges another 55-gallon drum that was nearby that was full of some liquid so it weighed 500 pounds and it comes crashing off the shelf and it lands on ivan's leg pinning him to the ground and immediately the two other brothers pulled the drum off of ivan but it was obvious there had been significant damage done to his leg ivan couldn't even stand up anymore and so the brothers are looking around thinking man this is an amazing hall but if ivan can't even walk i mean it's going to be a nightmare trying to haul this medal back while also supporting ivan and so they decided they would leave now and they would wait for ivan to heal up and then they would come back and they would collect their amazing hall and so the brothers they reached down and they picked up whatever pieces of metal they could to just kind of stuff in their pockets and then the two brothers supported ivan and carried him up the stairs and then they very slowly walked their way over to the fence and then somehow the three of them got up and over the fence and then very slowly they made their way all the way through the forest back to tamiku and when they got there the two brothers helped ivan get into his house and they put him in his bed and then ivan went to sleep the next morning when ivan got up he was expecting to feel better but in fact his leg felt exponentially worse and then over the course of the next 72 hours ivan still believed if he just gutted it out and he waited his leg would get better but it just got worse and worse and worse and so four days after this leg injury ivan was in so much pain he couldn't do anything and so he finally decided he had to go to the hospital and so when he gets to the hospital the doctor asks ivan you know what happened to your leg and ivan would tell him that oh i was in the woods and a tree fell on my leg because he didn't want to admit to trying to steal scrap metal and so the doctors they accepted this it seemed totally reasonable based on what his injury looked like and so they admitted him to the hospital they put him in his hospital room and right away the doctors and nurses began administering all the treatments and things they would do for a crush injury but it seemed like nothing was working over the course of the next several days ivan complained endlessly of the pain in his leg getting worse and worse and worse and the swelling was going up and overall ivan's health just continued to deteriorate over his stay in the hospital and then a week after being admitted to the hospital so roughly 10 or 11 days after he was hurt the doctors walked into his room and he was dead his kidneys had just abruptly failed and the doctors and nurses had absolutely no idea why and so they told the family we don't know what happened to him and so the family just had to collect ivan's body and then they had a funeral for him but they're all thinking to themselves how could this have happened he hurt his leg and then his kidneys failed it didn't make any sense but before they could get any clarity on that they were dealt another tragedy the beloved family dog just kind of abruptly died it was young it was healthy and so just like ivan it was like this totally unexpected death and so once again the family's asking what's going on here and then just a couple of days after that ivan's stepson came downstairs one morning complaining of feeling sick and when his family looked at his hands they were blistered and covered in boils and looked like he had just reached his hands into a fire or something but he would tell his family i didn't do that i don't know what's going on with my hands i don't know why i feel so sick and so the family rushed the boy to the hospital and naturally the doctors asked him you know how did your hands get this way what happened to you the boy would say i don't know but over the course of this initial discussion with doctors the boy would tell them that over the last couple of days he had been sifting through his stepfather ivan's possessions and he had actually been using some of ivan's tools from his toolbox now the doctors were already aware of the strangeness around ivan's death and they were aware of the sudden passing of the family dog and now they're seeing this boy who is showing up with these strange symptoms for no particular reason and so the doctors knew something was off and so on a hunch they contacted the authorities and they told them what they thought and then later that day the authorities showed up at ivan's family's house and when they got out of the car they were covered head to toe in white hazardous materials suits and they told the family to evacuate the house for their safety and then these people in suits got out these special wands and tools and they marched into the family home and immediately all their equipment led them to this one particular closet near the kitchen and when they opened it up in the closet was ivan's toolbox the same one the boy had been handling over the past couple of days and when they opened that up they found there were lots of normal tools you would expect inside of a toolbox and they discovered one strange piece of scrap metal it was the only piece of scrap metal that ivan had grabbed off the floor of that cellar and tucked in his pocket before he and his brothers had left and then after ivan had passed away his stepson had been going through his things and he had discovered this piece of scrap metal and for whatever reason he had transferred it from the jacket to ivan's toolbox what ivan and his family didn't know was that that piece of metal was extremely dangerous because it came not from some abandoned building on some abandoned property in the middle of the forest it came from an abandoned nuclear waste storage facility that is what ivan and his brothers had snuck onto but because ivan and his brothers had hopped over that side fence they didn't see any of the warning signs that are posted on the front of the front gates telling people to stay back inside that cellar that the brothers were in those small metal briefcase looking things on the lower shelves were shields for radiation inside of each of them was radioactive metal and when that full 55 gallon drum came crashing off the shelf and smashed into ivan's leg his leg was not the only thing it smashed into it smashed into one of those metal briefcases and broke it open sending the radioactive metal inside of it flying out and it landed right next to ivan on the ground and so when the brothers scrambled to pick up whatever loose scrap metal there was on the ground ivan unfortunately grabbed one piece and it was the radioactive one by the time ivan finally got back to his house he was actually already dead he just didn't know it yet that piece of metal had been inside of his jacket pocket and it had been pressed against his body long enough that he had been dealt a fatal dose of radiation there was nothing anybody could have done even if they knew what had happened to him as for the dog it used to sleep on ivan's jacket and it did so when this piece of scrap metal was inside of it and so it too died of radiation poisoning as for ivan's stepson the reason his hands had been so badly burned and why he'd become so sick that was just from his brief exchange of touching the piece of scrap metal and then putting it in ivan's toolbox that alone had done that much damage to him when the doctors considered the strangeness of ivan's death the dog's death and now this boy's symptoms they did suspect radiation poisoning and so that was how the authorities were able to get to their house and very quickly locate that toolbox amazingly ivan's stepson and the rest of ivan's family including his two brothers would make full recoveries however several months after this event and after authorities had come in and said their house was clear of radiation the grandmother would suddenly die totally unexpectedly she was healthy nothing was wrong with her and so even though it was not officially cited as having been caused by radiation many people believe it's from the exposure she had to this piece of scrap metal [Music] in 2017 71 year old bernard gore was a retiree living in tasmania which is an island state of australia in january of that year he and his wife of 50 years angela decided to go visit their daughter who lived in sydney australia now they made this trip with some regularity and they developed a sort of routine for every time they visited they would land in sydney and then the first day they would spend it entirely with their daughter at her house and then the next day angela would get up early and she would head out into town and do some shopping on her own and then sometime in the afternoon bernard would head out and he would meet up with her for lunch at a very popular spot it was called the westfield center mall and they had an amazing food court so on january 5th of that year bernard and angela they land in sydney and like they always did they went straight to their daughter's house and they spent the day with her and then early the next morning angela got up and she headed out to do her shopping and before she left she confirmed with her husband that they would meet up for lunch at westfield center mall now as it happened that day angela actually chose to do her shopping at westfield center mall and so she was there around lunchtime when she was supposed to meet bernard and so when she looked at her watch and she realized it was time to meet him she just simply stepped out of the shop she was in and headed over to the food court and when she got there she found their meeting spot it was in front of one of their favorite restaurants and she sat down and then she scanned around looking for her husband but inside of this busy food court she couldn't see him and so she looked at her watch again and she realized she was a couple of minutes early and so she grabbed a menu and she began looking for what she was gonna order while she waited for him to show up but 15 minutes would go by and bernard would not show up and so now he was late and so angela at this point she pulls her phone out and she tries calling her husband but he didn't answer however that was kind of common for bernard so not necessarily a red flag angela would continue to try calling her husband for the next several minutes and each time he would not answer and so eventually angela just gets frustrated and she's thinking to herself you know maybe he just got sidetracked and he's walking around the mall somewhere because bernard was known for being a big window shopper and as soon as angela thought that she was like that's gonna be it and it was so frustrating for her that he had just totally blown off their lunch date and so she stands up she abandons her table she's totally annoyed and she heads out into the main shopping area to go find her husband and so she's walking along looking in each of the windows expecting to see her husband and at the same time she's looking over her shoulder back towards the food court to see if maybe bernard had shown up but after 30 minutes of wandering around kind of right near the food court and not seeing him anywhere angela thinks to herself you know what i bet he thought we were supposed to meet at our daughter's house first and so he probably hasn't even left the house yet i bet he's just there waiting for me and so angela when she realizes this she stops looking for him in the mall she turns around and she begins walking towards the mall exit but before she reaches the exit door a terrifying thought crosses her mind what if bernard got confused and has no idea where he is right now a recent unfortunate development for bernard was that he was showing early signs of dementia it hadn't fully taken a hold of him yet but he was clearly starting to forget things that he shouldn't and so as soon as angela thought of this she went from being annoyed with her husband to being very worried about her husband and so she sped through those doors outside and speed walked all the way back to her daughter's house which was not far from the mall and the whole time she's walking she's telling herself she's gonna walk inside and she's gonna see bernard he's gonna be in the house but when she got to the house and went inside and saw her daughter her daughter said no dad left about two hours ago to go meet you i haven't seen or heard from him since now of course both of them were extremely worried for bernard but they decided to just stay calm that the best thing they could do right now would just be to stay put stay at their daughter's house and wait for bernard to eventually come back because the only other logical place he would go would be his daughter's house and so they sat at the house just kind of waiting looking at the door waiting for him to come in but he didn't and by 8 p.m six hours after anybody had last seen bernard he still had not shown up they couldn't get in touch with him and so angela called the police and reported him missing immediately the police contacted the westfield center mall security team and said hey you know we're looking for the sky and they went right down to the food court where bernard and angela had said they were going to meet and the mall security team walked all around and they walked into all the nearby shops and kind of scanned the immediate vicinity near their meeting spot but they reported back to police that there was no sign of bernard and they would also tell police that after reviewing their camera footage and this mall had hundreds of cameras covering every angle inside and out i mean everything is covered they would tell police you know after reviewing the footage we didn't see bernard enter or exit the mall at any point today he was not here and so the police they take this information and they go back to angela that night and they say hey look you know we talked to them all and based on their security footage they have no record of bernard ever being in the mall do you have any idea where he could have gone and angela would say no the only places would have been the mall or maybe at our daughter's house this is also when angela explained to police that her husband had early signs of dementia and so it was possible that he might have just gotten confused and he could be out on the street somewhere but she assured the police that her husband whenever this happened whenever he got confused he would just sit down and he would try to ask for help from anybody passing by or he would just sit where he was and he would wait for his family to come find him and so with this knowledge the police went back out and they widened their search and they began looking in all the areas that were within walking distance of the westfield center mall at the same time angela and her daughter began trying to retrace bernard's footsteps from the daughter's home in the direction of the westfield center mall to see if maybe there was something obvious along the route that might have sidetracked him and kind of led him astray and that maybe he'd be somewhere else in those directions but as they were walking around there really was nothing that stood out to them and then eventually it just got too dark out and they had to just turn it in and go back to their house and hope that the next morning when they got up the police would have found bernard and that he was okay but the next morning when they got up the police had not found bernard there was no sign of him there was no clues nothing and unfortunately over the next several weeks there was no sign of bernard nobody knew what happened to him on january 27th so three weeks after bernard had gone missing a maintenance worker at the westfield center mall was walking down the staff only passageway it was basically like this tunnel with no windows all concrete they kind of looped around the outside of the mall to help workers get to and from certain locations in the building he's walking down this passageway when he looks down this one hallway that was very rarely used and he sees at the end of it barely lit up from the lights inside there looks to be some equipment kind of propped up against the wall and he's thinking to himself there's no reason someone would leave their equipment at the end of this very rarely used hallway it didn't make any sense and so he decided to walk down and see whose equipment it was and so he's making his way down and he's getting closer and closer and he still can't quite figure out what it is the lighting's not great but when he gets close enough to see what it is he stops where he is he turns around and he runs back down the hallway he finds the nearest exit he goes outside and he calls the police back on january 6th on the day that bernard and angela were supposed to meet up for lunch bernard did leave his daughter's house and he walked straight to the mall and he got there he arrived at the westfield center mall and was picked up on camera walking into their food court but the staff at the mall who reviewed the footage for police they only looked at a handful of cameras there's hundreds of cameras they only looked at a couple and so they missed this crucial footage of bernard and what the footage would have shown them was bernard making his way into the food court ahead of angela angela's nowhere to be found and bernard instead of sitting down at their meeting spot in front of this restaurant bernard suddenly looks like he's confused and he turns and he walks to this emergency exit door he presses it in he steps inside and the door shuts behind him now the westfield center mall is not your average mall it is massive there are six floors to it nearly 300 shops and restaurants but what truly makes it massive is something that the public doesn't usually see and that is behind staff only doors and emergency exit doors like the one bernard had just gone through are nearly eight miles of windowless concrete narrow stairwells and tunnels that loop all around the outside of the building and once bernard had gone through that emergency exit door and that door had shut and locked behind him the only way for him to return to the food court and meet his wife would be if he completely exited the mall and looped all the way back around but in order to exit the mall from where he just entered he would need to go to a very specific exterior fire exit door that was several floors below him and to get to it required following this very confusing signage on the walls and so if you did it correctly you would basically go down the hallway find this particular stairwell you'd go down a couple of levels and then at some point without really any signage you would get to the appropriate floor and you'd go down the hallway into this maze of more hallways and then finally you'd reach this kind of non-descript exit door and that would be your exit finding your way from where bernard entered all the way to the exit of the mall would be challenging for someone thinking clearly and clearly bernard was not bernard was confused and likely really didn't understand where he was or what he was doing or why he was there and so he did not follow these directions instead he just began wandering down the hallway and he would have immediately passed the one stairwell that would have very circuitously brought him down but out of the building he passed that stairwell and he just kept on walking and eventually he walked into this staff only area which was even more confusing because there was no signs telling him where to go and virtually every door he encountered would have been locked and so as bernard wandered through this concrete maze and got more and more mixed up and confused he most likely began yelling out for help but his sound could not have penetrated the walls which means the only people who could have heard his cries would have been people inside the hallway with him and unfortunately this section of tunnels that bernard had found himself in was rarely if ever used by any of the staff and to make matters worse the mall security guards were supposed to come in and do regular checks of all these eight miles of tunnels and stairwells specifically to see if people got lost in them but over time the security guards kind of stopped doing that and there were no security cameras inside of this particular segment of tunnels that bernard found himself in and there was no cell phone reception so had he tried calling anyone it wouldn't have worked and so truly bernard was on his own and so after several hours or days of bernard aimlessly wandering around this maze hitting dead end after dead end and reaching locked door after locked door bernard at some point turned a corner and looked down at the end of a hallway and he saw there was a chair up against the side of the wall and like he was programmed to do any time he got confused he rushed over to it and he sat down and he began waiting for a passerby to help him or his family to find him but unfortunately help never came and he would eventually pass away on that chair on january 27th that maintenance worker he discovered bernard's body following his death the westfield center mall came out and said they made drastic changes to their security system and how they track people while they're on their property so that's gonna do it guys if you got something out of today's episode and you haven't done this already please offer to do the like buttons eyeliner but use a wide tip black sharpie also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly one or two video uploads we are now selling merchandise 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Id: sx14YtiLFIM

Length: 37min 27sec (2247 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 06 2022