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The Best of Coast to Coast AM

Life Changing Encounters - Best of Coast to Coast AM - 4/21/23

The Best of Coast to Coast AM

iHeartPodcasts and Coast to Coast AM

Society & Culture, News, Science

4.12.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Guest host Richard Syrett and open lines callers share stories of encounters with strangers that had profound impacts on them, including a wrong number call that prevented a suicide attempt, and chance meetings with a concentration camp survivor and a Tuskegee Airman.

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0:00.0

Just a few miles off the Thailand coast, the island of Kothau looks like a postcard.

0:07.0

I'd underneath the surface lies something sinister.

0:11.0

In the last 20 years dozens of tourists have died mysteriously on the island.

0:16.0

A dark cloud who's come over the island, death, mystery and danger.

0:23.0

Listen to Death Island every Wednesday on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on I Heart Radio.

0:35.0

On the wildcard line, Michael in Bellingham, Washington has been very patient.

0:39.0

Michael, welcome to Coast. Good morning.

0:41.0

We're true and I'm honored. Good morning. Thank you so much for taking my call.

0:45.0

I've been up very, very long time listening and today's the first time I've ever called because of the topic that you mentioned.

0:52.0

Ah, a stranger that affected your life?

0:55.0

Actually, I affected a stranger's life in a very weird way.

1:01.0

I found out my brother had moved to Philadelphia, I live in Seattle.

1:06.0

And we'd lost touch. We didn't talk very often.

1:09.0

And several years went by and then suddenly somebody called me and said,

1:13.0

well, your brother's in the hospital, he had a...

1:16.0

They found him standing on the side of the bridge. He was thinking about jumping and committing suicide.

1:20.0

Oh dear.

1:21.0

And I said, well, gosh, that's horrible.

1:23.0

And I felt guilty. I hadn't spoken to him in a couple of years and saw a pick up the phone.

1:27.0

And I called the old phone number that I had.

1:29.0

This been my contacts form.

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