Love and loss.
Otherworldy encounters.
A miraculous streak of bad luck.
The stories we have for you tonight may sound too fantastical to be true, but not everything
is as you think it will be.
Was a man visited by beings from another world?
Did a terrible morning save another from tragedy?
Did a journey through a cave lead to the end of a potential lifetime of love?
It's time for you to decide, what's fact.. and fiction.
The line that divides the factual from the unreal has long since blurred, the tales we
once thought fantastical now implanted as truth.
To decipher verity from the imagined, you must break from the ordinary and consider
a universe where the outlandish prevails.
Can you expand your mind to see beyond our perceived reality?
Can you decide what's fact or fiction?
First, we have a tale of adventure and tragedy, that of Emma Trent.
Seeking excitement on their Thailand excursion, Emma's fiance, John Welsh, had the perfect
thing planned for them.
Emma had never been underground, and she never expected her first journey to be her last.
Story # 1: The Incident at Phraya Nakhon Cave He had promised her the adventure of a lifetime
and Joe wasn't one to exaggerate.
Their trip to Thailand had been a nonstop series of thrills and adventure and Emma was
ready to take on another experience.
Their target was the Phraya Nakhon Cave, a location she had heard of during her time
in the country, but was told it was near impossible to find.
Of course, Joe found a way, and so the two of them and their fellow travelers - Don,
Maggie, their two sons, 10-year-old Albert, and the two guides Joe secured - set off.
Getting to the cave was as difficult as Emma was told, but the beauty of it was well worth
the effort and wait.
The walls shimmered beneath the beam of their flashlights, the specks of gold a natural
marvel she knew could never be matched.
As they explored the cave, following their guides to find the temple hidden deep within
the Earth, Emma couldn't believe that she was there.
Her joy, however, was shortlived.
About halfway through the cave, a steady roar echoed and overpowered the pleasant conversation
and directions of the guides.
Before any of them could make sense of what they were hearing, Emma saw the wall of water
rushing towards them.
Joe was quick to grab his fiance and find the closest place to climb, but they were
the only ones to escape the deadly wave.
Emma glanced back in time to see the guides and Albert swept away.
The family tried to follow Joe and Emma, but acted too late.
Emma climbed ahead of Joe, struggling against the slickness of the cave wall.
Her fingers struggled to grab a crevice, causing her to lose her footing and slip past Joe.
Luckily, he had always been quick with his reflexes and was able to grab her before she
hit the water.
The two kept climbing, eventually finding a ledge they could fit on and get their bearings.
Fearing they would never make it out of the cave, Joe told Emma he'd go to find help.
Despite her insistence that he stay, Joe thought he could ride the current to an exit.
With a kiss, he dropped into the water, leaving Emma to wait.
And so she waited, listening to the water rush beneath her.
She would never have guessed that, when another group happened upon her after the water had
subsided, she had been stuck on the ledge for eight hours.
Free from her underground prison, Emma tried to get word of Joe's survival.
When she was brought to a morgue, she got her answer.
Joe was laid out in a box next to one of the children.
Emma was the only survivor of their excursion into Phraya Nakhon Cave.
A joyous trip into the belly of the Earth gone awry.
It's not entirely unbelievable, but does it make sense that Joe opted to leave Emma behind
to get help?
With the water having taken most of their group already, would he really have thought
the current would lead him to safety?
And if so, why didn't he take Emma with him?
We'll reveal whether this story was true or not in a bit, but for now, vote by using the
onscreen poll and in the comment section, and get ready for another tale.
Alien encounter stories are nothing new, but are usually unbelievable in nature.
Take this story of Bryan Davison.
As they all seem to start, Davison was driving alone one night on an empty road - this time
on I-15 heading to Los Angeles, when his world, quite literally, was turned upside down...
Story # 2: The Unexpected PIt Stop Bryan wasn't used to I-15 being this empty,
but considering the time of night, it didn't surprise him.
He cut through the pitch black highway, his headlights offering the only source of light
for miles.
Leaving the bright city lights of Sin City behind him, Bryan was anxious to get back
home, but he still had more than half of his 4-hour drive ahead of him.
He kept at a leisurely pace, the dark of the road keeping him on edge and closely watching
for the desert critters.
He had let a series of cars pass by, their high beams illuminating the area around him,
but once they vanished over the hill ahead, he was again left by himself.
When a ball of light seemed to dance across the sky over the highway that stretched out
in front of him, Bryan figured it was just a trick of his imagination.
Even with the radio humming gently, it was still a quiet and lonely ride.
As he came over the hill, the light zipped by him again, this time much closer to his
car.
He knew he saw it this time, and while he struggled to determine what he had witnessed,
the unthinkable happened.
Bryan suddenly felt the need for sleep falling upon his eyes, so he rubbed at them and blinked
to relieve some of the strain.
In the brief instant that he was in darkness, he had been pulled from his car and brought
to somewhere unnatural.
He didn't remember how or when it happened, but when his vision cleared, he was no longer
driving on I-15.
Instead, he was looking at the interior of a metallic structure.
What looked like steel, surrounded him entirely, and as he tried to crane his neck to see every
facet of the unusual place, he found himself restrained to a table and his hands tied tight
together.
He had been so distracted by the change in his surroundings that he hadn't noticed the
other beings in the room with him.
They were terrifying, their look hauntingly ugly.
Most importantly, though, they weren't human.
Bryan wanted to panic, but he felt a rush come over him as the beings prodded at him,
their inhuman hands inspecting every inch of his body.
They didn't speak, at least not that he could hear, and only seemed to want to satiate a
curiosity about the man they had snatched.
Bryan could only watch as their hands poked at his body, but he felt a slight agitation
when one of the beings poked at his nose hard.
He wanted to bark out at them, try and scare them away, but nothing came to him.
Then, just as quickly as the incident hit him, Bryan found himself once again surrounded
by the familiarity of his car.
Finally able to speak and move, he let out a confused and excited scream.
Pulling over to the side of the road, he checked his body for markings and ran through the
past five minutes, trying to put the pieces together.
Just when he was ready to assume he simply fell asleep at the wheel and imagined the
white light and the strange creatures, he saw the light again, this time bouncing away
from him before vanishing deep into the pitch black of the desert.
It sounds a little too fantastical to be true, but could Davison's story have an ounce of
truth to it?
Surely, the empty road, the pitch blackness, and the sleepy drive would be enough to cause
Davison to hallucinate the flash of light in the sky, but did he fall asleep while driving
and dream his encounter?
Find out later during the reveal, but for now, let's continue on with the story of Donald
Temple.
All he wanted was his first day at work to go smoothly.
He never expected everything to go wrong that morning, but as he would later find, his misfortune
wound up being his greatest stroke of luck.
Story # 3: A Stroke of Luck It wasn't technically his first day on the
job, but it was Donald's first day back after losing a big client for the law firm of Hunter
and Gally.
Surprised that he hadn't been immediately canned, he didn't want to ruffle any feathers,
so he planned out the perfect morning to ensure he wouldn't get stuck in the city traffic
and arrive late at the office.
Unfortunately, or so he thought at the time, the morning wouldn't be so kind to him.
In the twilight hours, as he slept soundly, power to his home was lost, ensuring that
any alarm he had set wouldn't wake him.
If that had just been it, the 30-minute delay may not have completely ruined his morning.
The spilled coffee, the burnt eggs, the missing keys, and the lack of clean laundry, however,
exacerbated the initial delay.
By the time he actually left his home, Donald was already an hour late.
That also meant he would be stuck behind the morning school bus procession, tacking on
another 30 minutes to his tardy.
Besides the few stoplights he couldn't get through, the rest of Donald's drive was surprisingly
clear until he reached the daily problem area: the Brooklyn Bridge.
As he made the slow crawl along the bridge, he could see his office towering in the distance.
He felt as if the eyes of his boss were staring at him from the upper floor, silently chiding
him for his tardy.
With nothing but breaklights ahead of him, Donald kept his eyes locked on his destination,
playing through the inevitable conversation about his commitment to the firm.
Just as he got to replaying his staple apology, he spotted something approaching the building.
Seconds later, it erupted into a fireball and a thick cloud of black.
Donald sat dumbfounded, staring in confusion at the stream of smoke that filled the city
skyline.
As the traffic remained unmoving - and he figured would remain as such - he never let
his eyes fall off the smoking tower.
He only broke contact to watch as a second object, a plane, slammed into the side of
the second tower.
He didn't think of it that morning, as he watched the Twin Towers collapse, but many
people tell him how lucky he was to have had a stroke of bad luck that morning.
As we near the end, consider this final tale where a man's misfortune wound up being the
best thing he could ask for.
Was Donald so lucky that his bad luck saved his life?
Let us know what you think in the poll and comment section below.
Now, let's get to what we've all been waiting for.. the reveal.
Are you ready to find out if you can decipher between fact or fiction?
Let's look back at tonight's three stories and find out which were born from reality
and which were fabrications of the imagination.
We opened this episode with the tragic story of Emma Trent and her trek into Phraya Nakhon
Cave.
Do you think her experience in Thailand ended in tragedy and with the death of her fiance?
If not, let me introduce you to Helena Carroll, survivor of a very similar incident that unfolded
in the Nam Talu cave in Khao Sok national park.
Helena's fiance, John Cullen, took her on an expedition to the cave with a Swiss couple,
their two daughters, a 10-year-old German boy, and two local guides.
Helena was the only one to survive when the monsoon rains flooded the cave.
How about our second story, that of Bryan Davison?
A strange encounter on the lonely road to Vegas.
It may sound like an impossible scenario, one best suited for a science fiction novel
or an episode of The Orville, but this is an encounter that a real person claims to
have had.
You actually may recognize him: NBA player Baron Davis.
During a 2003 broadcast of The Champs podcast, Davis told this exact story.
While we can't attest to what he really saw, all we can say is that he thoroughly believes
his claims.
Finally, let's have a look back at Donald Temple, an anxious man who just wanted to
perform well after a major mixup at his office.
Was his string of bad luck responsible for his missing the attack on the Twin Towers?
While there have been stories of people that, by chance, just never made it to work or on
the planes that day, Donald was not one of them.
How well did you do in tonight's video?
Did you look past the deception of our world and define the oft-blurred line that struggles
to separate lies from the truth?
Let us all know in the comment section below and should you find the urge to test your
perceptions again, be sure to subscribe and join us next time when we ask you to decide
what's fact... or fiction.
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