56: She Fell From The Sky: The Sole Survivor of Flight 508

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

When Juliane Koepcke boarded flight 508 with her mother on Christmas Eve, 1971, she knew the airline they were flying had a horrible reputation. She never imagined that she'd be the only person of the 92 on board to survive the flight.

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0:00.0	January 3rd, 1972, three forest workers, Beltran-Pareres, Carlos Vasquez and Nesta Amassifuan walk deep into the Peruvian rainforest.
0:17.0	Above them, the sky is a dark gray, casting a deep shadow through the already shaded jungle. This part of the rainforest is so
0:26.3	dense and thick that the canopy blocks out most of the sun even on a good day.
0:31.1	They almost stayed home. The rain was supposed to be bad and they
0:35.8	wondered if they should just come out tomorrow. But something and Carlos told him
0:40.5	they should go. And so here they were heading towards their station deep in one of the most isolated places on the planet.
0:50.0	As the three men walk forward, they hear something in the distance.
0:55.0	They slow down and scan the forest.
0:58.0	Most of what they would find in this part of the Amazon would be harmless.
1:02.0	Monkeys, sloths, ant eaters, but on the off
1:06.3	chance they were being stalked by a Jaguar, they wanted to be ready. They followed the noise,
1:12.1	when underneath the makeshift tent where they're supposed to be stationed,
1:17.0	Carlos sees something that makes his eyes go wide.
1:21.0	The others follow his gaze expecting to see a predator. They could have
1:27.8	never guessed what was walking towards them. It was a girl, but one that looked unlike anyone he had ever seen in the
1:37.1	area. She was about 17 years old with platinum blonde hair and big red eyes. She was covered in mud and had a bad
1:47.7	wound on her leg. Gasoline dripped down her arm. Who was this girl? There were no white people in this part of
1:57.6	Peru, only a few scattered locals with tan skin and dark hair. Beltran couldn't believe his eyes.
2:05.0	And for a moment, he wondered if he should kneel before her.
2:10.0	He had heard legends of who this woman must be.
2:14.0	Yakumama, the Peruvian jungle's water goddess.
2:18.0	Often portrayed as a snake, it was said that if a pregnant woman looked at Yaku Mama she would come back and
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