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paranormal listed. For this episode, we're going back to July 1982.

In July 1982, 33-year-old Larry Walters lived in San Pedro, California.

From a young age, he was fascinated with balloons.

He said he went to Disneyland for the first time when he was about eight or nine.

One of the first things he saw was a woman holding a bunch of helium-filled Mickey Mouse-shaped balloons.

He said that he was struck with the idea that the balloons would lift him off the ground if he had enough of them.

The idea stayed with him for years. It was the only thing you

could think of when he served as a cook in Vietnam. In the spring of 1982, Walters decided to

follow through with his plan. He said that if he didn't do it, he might have gone crazy. On July 2nd,

1982, Walters attached 42, 8-foot weather balloons to a Sears Roebuck lawnchair.

He had purchased the lawn chair for $109.

He then filled the balloons with helium.

He attached 13 plastic gallon water jugs to the lawn chair for buoyancy.

He then strapped himself into the chair with a pelican, a CB radio, sandwiches,

beer, and a camera. Walters planned to rise 100 feet in the air and then the wind would push him

to the Mojave Desert. He would then shoot some balloons with a pelican to lower himself,

but things didn't go according to plan. Walters quickly rose to 16,000 feet. He was spotted by two

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