Divine Intervention

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Today's podcast will feature two stories that are about events that simply couldn't have happened by chance alone. The audio from both of these stories has been pulled from our main YouTube channel and has been remastered for today's episode. The links to the original YouTube videos are in the description. The first story you'll hear is called Bleeding Out, and this story comes full circle in the most unbelievable way.
The second and final story you'll hear today is called Three Hangings, and it might be one of the strongest examples of unseen forces shaping an outcome. 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've come to the right place because that's all we do, and we upload four times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Fridays. So if that's of interest to you, please offer to let the follow button stay in your Airbnb for free. But don't tell them about all those human-hating honey badgers you've hid under all the beds.
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On the afternoon of June 29th, 1934, a 37-year-old police officer named Captain Alan Falby pressed the throttle on his police motorcycle and sped down a street in El Paso, Texas. Captain Falby's motorcycle lights and sirens were on because he was chasing a speeding pickup truck down the road. But despite the fact that obviously Captain Falby was in pursuit of this person, they were not slowing down at all. So Captain Falby had been a police officer for 11 years and he loved his job, he loved his motorcycle, and he hated when suspects got away. So he kept his hand on the throttle and kept chasing down the suspect, but suddenly the truck he was going after slammed on its brakes and swerved hard to the left. Falby tried to slow down, but it was too late. He slammed into the back of this truck and then he and his bike went sliding across the asphalt for a few seconds and the whole time, Falby is feeling his body getting totally scraped against the pavement and the winds getting knocked out of him. And then finally, when he came to a stop, he was splayed out in the middle of the road and his motorcycle, his beloved motorcycle, was laying on top of him, pinning his legs under him. And this bike weighed like 500 pounds. And adding insult to injury here, as Falby is screaming out in pain because obviously horrible injuries have been sustained here, he looks down the road and he sees the truck he was chasing, who clearly knew he just wrecked behind them. They're not going to stay and help. They just drove off, protecting themselves. And so pretty quickly, Falby kind of assessed the situation he was in. You know, he tried for a second to push this bike off of him, but not only could he not move it, but every time he moved it just a little bit, the weight would kind of come down even harder and a little bit more pointed on his legs, which were crushed and he had this excruciating pain down there. And worse, he's looking underneath him and he's seeing this growing pool of blood. Clearly, he's sustained potentially life-threatening injuries here, and he's all alone. Like there's nobody here to help him and he's totally stuck. And so even though he began calling out for help, the reality was, you know, if nobody came along soon, he was done for and he found himself starting to panic.
Luckily though, just then, two men from down the road came running up to Captain Falby. Apparently, they had been sort of behind the captain and were watching him pursuing this truck and they had actually seen the accident. And so they had pulled over and they were now running up to see if he was okay.