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Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Unexplained folieadeux or Rise of the SuperSoldiers

Unexplained : True Tales of Unexplained Mysteries with Bestselling Author Steph Young

Steph Young

History, Spirituality, Religion & Spirituality

4.3613 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

In 2008 an astonishing incident was captured live on CCTV and by a BBC film crew who happened to be filming a documentary about the British motorway police. Two women are observed on the live screens at the M6 Motorway traffic control room in a rural part of Northern England near Stoke on Trent. They are walking along the central reservation of the motorway. The control room dispatches highway patrol officers to the scene immediately to stop the women. It’s completely illegal and a highly dangerous and illogical place to be walking. As the patrol car approaches them, back at the control room the live feed shows both women climbing over the short barriers of the central reservation and running straight into the path of the fast flowing traffic on the motorway. One of them is hit by a car in the fast lane. Inexplicably, despite having just been hit head on by the car, she immediately gets straight back up and continues on to the other side of the road. She is seen to be oblivious to any pain. Immediately the control room call the motorway police to go to the scene. The BBC film crew go in the car with the two police officers, filming their arrival within moments and expecting to find the woman who was hit by the speeding car very seriously injured and needing urgent medical treatment. As they pull up and get out of the police car, the women suddenly seem to notice the police and become highly agitated. As the police approach them and start to question them on the roadside, the BBC cameras capture the astonishing moment one of the women side-steps the police and runs straight into the oncoming traffic, again, followed quickly after by her sister, who does exactly the same thing. They are Swedish twins Sabina and Ursula Eriksson. One of them is hit by a car and sent flying over its roof; the other is hit head-on by a lorry. This highly disturbing scene is captured by the cameras. The police immediately call for an ambulance, stating to the emergency services over the walkie-talkie that it’s probably going to be two fatalities; they were both hit at full impact by the speeding vehicles. The woman hit by the car, at a speed of at least 60mph, is lying unconscious in the middle of the traffic lane. The woman hit by the lorry has broken bones visibly sticking out of her legs. As the police minister to her, she’s heard saying, “I know you are not real….” Unexplained folie a deux or Rise of the SuperSoldiers?Sabina and Ursula Eriksson – Tales of Mystery, Unexplained Podcast

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0:00.0

When I first found this case, I put it in one of my books back in 2015, because was the strangest case I think I'd ever heard of

0:26.6

and it's so mysterious.

0:31.6

In 2008 an astonishing incident was captured live on CCTV and by a film crew of the BBC

0:43.7

who happened to be there at the time filming a documentary about the British Motorway Police

0:53.3

two women are observed on the live about the British Motorway Police.

1:08.2

Two women are observed on the live screens at the M6 Motorway Traffic Control Room in a rural part of Northern England near Stoke-on-Trent.

1:15.4

The two women are walking along the central reservation of the motorway.

1:27.5

Seeing this, on their screens, the control room officers dispatch highway patrol officers to the scene immediately to stop the women.

1:34.6

What they were doing was completely illegal, but more importantly, it was highly dangerous.

1:40.9

And in fact a very illogical place to be walking there.

1:51.8

Well, as the patrol car approaches the two women back at the control room, watching the live feeds,

2:07.8

it shows that both women climb over the short barriers of the central reservation and start running straight into the path of the fast-flowing traffic on the motorway. One of them is hit by a car in the fast lane. But inexplicably,

2:19.6

despite having just been hit

2:21.6

head on by the car,

2:26.4

she immediately gets straight back up

2:29.1

and continues on

2:30.8

to the other side of the road.

2:37.0

She seems to be completely impervious to any pain.

2:46.0

Yet she's just been hit head on.

2:58.5

Well, immediately, the control room called the motorway police to go to the scene and the BBC film crew go in the car with the two police officers.

3:06.4

So they're filming their arrival,

3:09.8

which is just moments away.

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