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🗓️ 26 February 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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0:00.0 | I can't remember when I got this story. |
0:09.0 | It's been not too terribly long, but it's one of the craziest stories I've ever read. |
0:14.0 | And I've never thought about this theory, what you're going to learn about. |
0:20.0 | Now, for the first five minutes or so, she's going to |
0:22.9 | give some background on where she's from, what she does. Hang on because this is a long story, |
0:28.9 | and it really gets good. I mean, it gets really creepy. Here's what Jenna writes. How the past |
0:36.3 | year has changed my life, I cannot begin to express, but I will give it my best shot. |
0:42.5 | My name is Jenna, and I'm a 29-year-old female geologist, speleologist, and I was working for the government within the Department of Geological Survey up until recently. |
0:56.9 | We were responsible to explore and map out old mine shafts and cave systems in the eastern United States. There are |
1:04.6 | several of these teams working throughout the country in places like the Rockies, Texas, the Midwest, |
1:10.7 | and in Washington State. |
1:13.1 | I've heard that there are also teams in Canada and Mexico as well. |
1:18.3 | I have been spielunking since I was five years old with my father and older brothers, |
1:24.0 | so it became who I was and not just what I did. |
1:29.9 | My experience through the years made me useful to this project. I was recruited in my last year of graduate school at Dartmouth College |
1:37.1 | in New Hampshire by Joseph, who had become my supervisor and mentor. My eight teammates were all roughly the same age, and we had various degrees of interest |
1:48.7 | of study, including engineering, archaeology, biology, herpetology, and volcanology, |
1:55.6 | as well as other fields. |
1:58.7 | We were a mixture of seven men and two women, and all have a love for the world below the |
2:04.4 | surface, resulting in our pale skin in very thin frames because we spent most of the days in the |
2:11.1 | dark out of the sunlight. It wasn't all that bad for me being a pale skin ginger and ten minutes in the sun i would turn into a lobster |
2:20.1 | the meals that we take are mostly small protein bars and water it's easier to carry with us |
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