Top 3 photos with DISTURBING backstories | Part 19

today i'm going to share with you three progressively more disturbing stories and at the end of each of them i will share the photo that is famously associated with them but before we get into today's stories if you're a fan of the strange dark and mysterious delivered in story format then you come to the right channel because that's all we do and we upload three or four times every week so if that's of interest to you the next time the like button asks for a phone charger give them your broken one that only works when you bend the cord at a certain angle also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly uploads alright let's get into today's stories on december 17 1903 the wright brothers successfully flew the world's first motor-operated airplane by 1910 airplanes had improved to the point where they were considered a reasonable form of travel and so people began focusing on how to make them safer one big safety concern with airplanes at the time was there was no parachute small enough or light enough to be taken on board with passengers and so if the plane malfunctioned and was crashing everybody had to go down with it so in 1911 a prominent french aviation club offered a large sum of money to anybody who could design a parachute for airplane passengers a man named franz wright kelt who was a tailor in paris but who had always had a fascination with aviation saw this reward in the paper and decided to take on this challenge the design he came up with was not an external device like a backpack instead it was a full suit with foldable bat wings that attached to the passenger's arms and connected all the way down to their ankles using his sewing know-how he stitched up this totally bizarre looking prototype and he attached it to a dummy and threw it off of his apartment building and amazingly the dummy landed lightly on the ground but when franz who significantly outweighed this dummy put on his parachute suit and left off of the building himself he did not touch the ground lightly he smashed into the ground and broke his leg but franz was undeterred he made dozens of changes to his suit he added material he subtracted material and after a while he felt like it was ready to be submitted to this french aviation club but when the club members watched one of franz's dummies wearing the suit come crashing into the ground because the canopy collapsed they rejected his design franz assured them his design could work they just needed to see it in action from a slightly higher altitude the canopy needed more time to fully inflate but the club members were not buying it and they told franz he should just give up on the design franz was offended and decided he would prove them wrong so in 1911 franz began petitioning to the city of paris to allow him to test his design off of the eiffel tower he thought if he jumped from one of their platforms that would be high enough for his canopy to fully inflate thereby showing that his design really did work and so for a year the city of paris repeatedly rejected franz every time he asked for the chance to do this but in 1912 something changed and the city said okay you know what franz you can test your parachute on the eiffel tower but what the city didn't know because franz had intentionally kept it secret from them was he didn't intend to launch a dummy off of the eiffel tower wearing his suit he was going to put the parachute suit on and jump off the 17 stories himself and so on february 4th of that year franz arrived at the tower and standing around the base of it was a throng of people and journalists who had all read about this experiment in the newspaper and so when franz got out and promptly put on his parachute suit the crowd gasped they couldn't believe he was going to be the one jumping off of the tower and none of franz's friends or family knew he was going to be jumping off the tower himself and so they pleaded with him not to do this throw a dummy off you should not be jumping off this is not gonna work legend has it franz turned to one of his friends and he said you will see that my 72 kilos and my parachute will give your arguments the most decisive of denials then franz promptly turned around and began walking up the stairs towards the platform and with him was a journalist who brought a camera once franz reached the platform the journalists began filming him and his video would capture fronds climbing up onto the railing and then hesitating and he anxiously begins kind of rocking back and forth like he's debating whether he's really gonna do this and then at some point he works up the courage and he jumps and immediately his suit collapses and he slams into the ground dying instantly another cameraman was on the ground and he filmed franz's final jump here is a still shot of fronds right before impact 45 year old florida man mike moylan suddenly shot up in bed and grabbed the sides of his head wincing in pain he had a blinding headache he squinted across the room at the alarm clock it was 4 30 in the morning on june 28 2007 mike got out of bed and tried to stand up but he immediately got dizzy so he sat back down again took a couple of deep breaths and then he stood up again and this time he was steady on his feet he walked across his bedroom into his bathroom where he opened the medicine cabinet grabbed some painkillers swallowed three of them and then walked back into his bedroom before he laid down again he noticed there was a dark spot on his pillow now it was dark in his room so he couldn't really tell what it was and his wife april was fast asleep in bed with him so he didn't want to flip the lights on and wake her up but he had a feeling that that spot was likely blood and so he ran his hands all over his head to see if there was blood coming off of him and he found some on his right ear and so he thought to himself well i guess my wife must have elbowed me in my sleep that's why i'm bleeding and that's why my head hurts and so feeling content that that was what happened he laid back down and waited for the meds to kick in so he could sleep but after 30 minutes of complete restlessness not only had the meds done nothing it seemed like his headache was getting progressively worse and his ear continued to bleed and suddenly mike thought himself wait a minute what if i have an aneurysm that's burst and that's why there's blood leaking out of my ear onto the pillow a brain aneurysm is the bulging or ballooning of a blood vessel in the brain and if it ruptures it can be fatal and so now feeling scared that he was dying mike woke up his wife april and told her we've got to go to the hospital right away in april who's half asleep seemed very confused but eventually got the message and they got up they hopped in her car and she drove them to the emergency room as soon as they got there doctors x-rayed mike's head afterwards when mike and april were sitting in an exam room a nurse walked in holding on to an x-ray image and she held it up to the light and she pointed to a foreign object in mike's skull and she says well it looks like he got shot mike couldn't believe it and neither could the nurse or any of the doctors he should have been dead april who was apparently so overcome with emotions ran out of the room and mike was quickly ushered into emergency surgery where after a couple of hours they were able to remove the bullet from his head as mike lay in his hospital bed recovering from the surgery with his wife next to him the police showed up and began asking questions about what happened and they initially just believed that a stray bullet must have entered the home and struck mike in the side of his head but after speaking to the couple april revealed that she slept with a pistol underneath her pillow and that maybe it had fired accidentally and then when they really dug into this and they asked her more questions about this gun underneath her pillow her story began to unravel and eventually she would confess that she had in fact tried to kill mike and shot him while he was sleeping she told police the reason she did it is she had recently destroyed one of the couple's successful businesses but mike had not found out about it yet and so she decided she would kill him before he could find out after her confession mike was crushed and felt like an idiot but he would tell police that there were a couple of red flags about his wife that he noticed on the night he actually woke up with this headache for one when he told her hey i want to go to the hospital because i'm bleeding out of my ear she apparently took a really long time getting dressed and acted overly confused about what was happening well beyond the i'm just tired routine and then when they got in the car and were driving to the hospital she was driving impossibly slow and he was asking her to speed up and she just wouldn't and so mike realized now that what she was really doing was hoping if she just delayed long enough he might die before they reached the hospital obviously he did not april was jailed on attempted murder charges but just a year after being in prison she was released on a plea deal here is the image of mike's x-ray where they discovered he had a bullet in his head of the most insane jobs in the world is being a saturation diver for an oil and gas company these highly specialized divers go down to extreme depths to do construction and demolition on underwater structures the extreme pressure on their bodies from being so deep will cause some of the mixed gas they breathe to get trapped inside of their body now this is harmless while it's happening so while they're down at depth this doesn't matter but when they ascend they have to do what's called decompression stops where they basically stop in the water column at certain depths and just wait and allow these trapped gases to naturally come out of their body now if they skip these decompression stops and just rush to the surface those trapped gases will not leave their body and they will expand inside of them causing a condition called decompression sickness or the bends and it can be fatal now these decompression stops get longer and longer the deeper you go and in the case of saturation divers they'll go as deep as 2000 feet and for reference in order to safely ascend from 2000 feet it would take you about 33 hours and so these oil and gas companies can't afford to have their divers taking 33 hours in between dives and so they came up with a clever workaround they built a pressurized chamber system on board ships and oil rigs where their divers would live in between their dives and what this did was by keeping their divers constantly under pressure either literally underwater or in this system the trapped gases inside of them didn't have a chance to expand and so their divers couldn't get the bends the divers would live inside of this incredibly cramped chamber for weeks at a time getting transported to and from the sea floor inside of this small pressurized sphere that's called a dive bell that could detach from the chamber without totally depressurizing the whole system at the end of these divers multi-week shifts they would do one long decompression stop inside of the chamber and then when they were done they'd step out of the chamber and they'd be fine again in september of 2012 a 32 year old saturation diver named chris lemons was on board a dive ship in the middle of the north sea he along with 11 other divers had just started a four week long saturation shift on the 12th of that month chris along with two other divers named dave and duncan were scheduled to perform routine maintenance on an oil platform 330 feet below the surface the north sea is notorious for terrible weather but this day the weather was especially bad and they considered not doing the dive but ultimately they decided to do it anyways as chris dave and duncan put on their diving equipment and climbed from their living chamber through the tunnel into the dive bell the captain of the ship navigated directly over this oil platform and then flipped on autopilot mode which activated dynamic positioning now dive ships rely heavily on dynamic positioning which is really just this high-tech computer that make sure as soon as you turn it on that the ship does not move from a particular spot in the water so regardless of the swells and the wind the ship stays steady and this is really important when you have divers in the water because the dive bell is connected to the ship and the divers are connected to the dive bell and so if the ship is moving all over the place so is the dive bell and so are the divers making it impossible for the divers to do their job once the captain had the dynamic positioning up and running the three divers sealed the door of the dive bell behind them and then the dive bell was detached from the chamber and then lowered through a hole in the middle of the ship into the ocean once the bell got down to 330 feet chris opened up a hatch on the bottom of the dive bell that led directly into the water now because the pressure inside the bell matches the pressure outside the bell water does not come in through this hole duncan was the bell man for the night so he would not be going out and doing any diving he would be staying in the bell to support dave and chris and so he helped them get their big helmets on and connected their umbilical to each of them sat divers when they're outside of the bell are completely reliant on their umbilical it's this long stretch of tubes and wires that are connected directly to their suit and to their helmet and it provides air as well as heat and electricity to their lights and it provides radio communication up to the people on the boat once chris and dave were all set up they slipped through the hole at the bottom of the bell which brought them down to this little platform that was suspended right below the bell and from there they leapt off all the way down to the sea floor now sat divers will say that leap from that platform is both amazing and terrifying because once you leave the bell it's completely pitch black all around you so there's no reference point of how fast you're going or even how close to the ground you are and so it feels like you're just sinking into this endless abyss before you crash into the ground once chris and dave did hit the ground they stood up and began walking and they were directed by the radio in their helmet which direction they needed to go to reach this oil platform the oil platform was 11 meters tall and it looked like a sort of pyramid of these big steel pipes they climbed up the side until they reached their respective working area and then they settled in to do their job which they expected to take about six hours at first everything was going to plan but about an hour into the job something went terribly wrong on the surface the dynamic positioning computer failed now the captain immediately saw it and just expected the backup computer to kick in and take over but in a terrible turn of luck the backup computer also failed and so very quickly this huge dive ship began drifting in the rough seas dragging with it the dive bell and the divers 330 feet below while the captain struggled to try to fix the system and get it back online and get the ship back on station another crew member hopped on the radio and called down to dave and chris who were outside of the dive bell and told them to abandon the structure and get back in the bell asap and chris and dave could tell from the urgency in this person's voice that this was no drill this was serious chris and dave were both positioned on the south side of the structure about halfway up and their umbilicals were running straight up the structure and then northward because the ship was drifting northward so neither chris nor dave could go around the structure they needed to go straight up before being able to climb their umbilicals back up to the bell and so both men began climbing but they could feel the tension on their umbilical was getting tighter and tighter and dave managed to get all the way to the top and he cleared the lip and as soon as he was on top he started getting pulled away from the structure and he looked to see if chris was also getting pulled and all he saw was chris's umbilical impossibly stretched still draped over the south side and he could not see chris and that's when dave duncan and all the people on the surface heard chris come over the radio frantically saying he was stuck on the underwater structure his umbilical had gotten wrapped around one of the pylons and so through the radio chris asked duncan to give him more slack but duncan said there is no more slack we are completely tight here you have to get it free and chris would say i can't un-free it it keeps getting tighter and tighter i can't get it off the pylon and so dave jumped down onto the platform and tried to pull himself over to chris but his own umbilical was getting pulled towards the dive bell and so he could not help chris and so dave knew he couldn't do anything so he turned and began crawling up his umbilical towards the dive bell and as he's climbing he hears behind him this extremely loud explosion it sounded like a shotgun going off and what it was was chris's umbilical snapping under the tension as soon as the umbilical snapped it sent chris flying backwards off the structure falling towards the ocean floor without his umbilical he wouldn't have had light he wouldn't have had a radio to talk to anybody up on the boat he wouldn't have had heat and the water was just barely above freezing and so he would have been very cold very fast and he would not have had an air supply although he would have had two backup canisters on his back that would automatically turn on however they only gave him five or maybe six minutes of air and so when chris hit the ocean floor it would have been eerily quiet and totally completely pitch black he stood up at some point and looked around him and didn't see anything but knew he had to get back to the underwater structure it was his only chance of anybody finding him again and so he had to make the impossible decision of just choosing a direction and blindly walking not having any idea what you're walking towards choose wrong and you might walk over a cliff but at some point chris made up his mind and just began walking in a single direction and miraculously he walked into the underwater structure he climbed up the side until he got to the top which was a flat metal grate and there he looked around and saw there was no dive belt there was no sign of anything it was just him he was completely all alone and he must have known at this point that he was running out of air he probably had maybe one or two minutes left and so he would have been acutely aware that even if they're looking for him they're not gonna find him in time he's going to die and at some point breathing would have become extremely difficult until there was no more air and then he would have passed out and killed over back on the surface the captain was desperately trying to use manual controls to pilot the ship back over where chris was but because of how rough the seas were it was proving to be nearly impossible as the captain struggled other members of the crew launched a remote controlled vehicle into the water to at least go down and try to find chris and so they decided they would just pile it straight to the underwater structure and begin looking around that area and so for a few anxious minutes the crew on board the ship watched the camera which was the live feed coming from this underwater vehicle as it went through totally dark water and then at some point on the screen the structure just appeared and the vehicle as it went up towards the top it got a look at the very top of the structure and on the screen they saw chris lying on his side totally motionless at this point he had been without air for at least 20 minutes in a last-ditch effort the captain decided to completely power off the ship and its computer and just do a hard reset something that you would never do especially in rough seas because if it doesn't come back on again you are dead in the water but when they turned it back on again the ship came on and the computer system came back online including the dynamic positioning computer so the captain immediately threw it on autopilot and the ship navigated right over where chris's last position was after chris's umbilical had broken dave had managed to climb back up to the bell and he was just standing underneath that platform right beneath it and so when the ship got right back over chris's position dave lapped off the platform got to the sea floor climbed up the structure grabbed hold of chris's body and hauled him back up into the bell once chris's body was inside the bell duncan the bellman removed chris's helmet and he saw that his face was blue and he was totally lifeless but duncan immediately just gave him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and after giving him two big breaths chris came back to life he started gagging and coughing and he's looking around wide-eyed and duncan and dave are looking at him like you gotta be kidding me you're supposed to be dead and after about 30 seconds the color in chris's face had totally come back and he was looking at duncan and dave and asked them you know what happened and duncan and dave didn't have an answer for him and so instead all three men just started laughing and hugging they could not believe it once chris was brought back up to the ship the dive medic looked at him and concluded that nothing was wrong with him he was perfectly fine despite the fact he had been without an air supply for over 30 minutes and three weeks after the incident chris was back down saturation diving again today scientists don't know how chris survived the leading theory is that it was just so cold it slowed his heart and his brain down and that somehow kept him alive but the reality is his survival is a total mystery here is what the crew saw when their remote-controlled vehicle found chris lying on top of that platform so that's gonna do it guys if you found the secret in today's episode let us know in the comments what it is and where you found it so give us the time stamp and if you're the first to do that we will pin you at the top of the comment section if you enjoyed today's video and you haven't done this already the next time the like button asks for a phone charger give them your broken one that only works when you bend the cord at a certain angle also please subscribe to our channel and turn on all notifications so you don't miss any of our weekly 3 or 4 video uploads if you want to get in touch with me you can direct message me on 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Id: zhgBeoviM8Y

Length: 20min 52sec (1252 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 24 2021